Example sentences of "have a [adj] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ash , as our hero is called , has a sardonic way with words . |
| 2 | Sam , apparently , has a strange way of showing gratitude . |
| 3 | Your queen has a nasty way of scratching her nose , and your angel is in a sulk . |
| 4 | The Profitboss has a simple way of establishing the contribution link to profit . |
| 5 | In Committee , the Minister invariably points out that Parliament has a simple way of dealing with orders and that we should stick to it . |
| 6 | But he is derisive about English defenders and he has a descriptive way of saying so . |
| 7 | No BBC stooge , he has a sharp way with erring broadcasters . |
| 8 | Life has a funny way of sorting itself out . |
| 9 | If impressing less as a ‘ big ’ personality she nevertheless has a vivid way of making the developments real and present : for example , at the start of the Act 2 solo , ‘ que viens-je d'entendre ? ’ , she conveys , still more than Baker , the sense of the overheard talk having happened a minute or two before . |
| 10 | ‘ We English have often had a different way of looking at such things from the French , Mr Lewis . ’ |
| 11 | And if everything goes to plan , archaeologists will have a new way of dating wooden objects . |
| 12 | Anti-Philistinism and anti-Arab sentiment may have a nasty way of feeding on each other . |
| 13 | Why should n't I have a different way of estimating it ? |
| 14 | Well that 's it , when Shakespeare wrote a play and the text has survived and , but the way of of joshing the people on the way they do it is different every generation and even most of the people in the same generation would would have a different way of doing it . |
| 15 | Well that 's it , when Shakespeare wrote a play and the text has survived and , but the way of of joshing the people on the way they do it is different every generation and even most of the people in the same generation would would have a different way of doing it . |
| 16 | ‘ He does have a natural way of dealing with young people . |
| 17 | American software start-ups may now have a sure-fire way into the European market thanks to a new-fangled French vehicle called Ariana SA . |
| 18 | Dr. Briant says he was born to have a nice way with him . ’ |
| 19 | But for more complicated molecules we need to have a systematic way of working out how many of the molecular vibrations will be active . |
| 20 | In answer to the second question ; Christ is Paul 's loving Redeemer and the Giver of the Spirit empowering Paul to have a new way of life . |
| 21 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 22 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 23 | Jess took a step backwards , muttering under her breath : ‘ God protect me and forgive me sins I did n't meant no wrong … ’ without believing in much except bruises , hunger and Fate which had a nasty way of turning the tables against her , but willing at the same time to try anything once . |
| 24 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 25 | It means , in effect , that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 26 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 27 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
| 28 | Jarvis was an eccentric and in the opinion of many who knew him a very strange man , but he had a quiet way of getting on with things . |
| 29 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |
| 30 | ( The mali had a unique way of turning simple English words into Hindi or Urdu equivalents : the clay tubs in which he planted his flowers became fellah-i-puts , seedlings were Sid-ud-Dins , while my favourite flower — the hollyhock — became a holi-ul-haq . |