Example sentences of "he had a [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | mind he had a Milky Way bar and then afterward he had a mini Milk |
| 3 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 4 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
| 5 | He had a peculiar way of dismounting — instead of putting his right leg over the saddle in the usual fashion , he used to put his left leg on a step protruding from the rear spindle , stand on this and gently place his right leg to the ground . |
| 6 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had a funny way of talking , Kate thought . |