Example sentences of "had a [adj] way [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 4 | It means , in effect , that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 5 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 6 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 7 | But she had a better way of relaxing the tightness that started at the back of her neck and spread across the crown of her head than attempting sleep . |
| 8 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | Life had a funny way of catching up with you , thought Kate . |
| 13 | He had a funny way of talking , Kate thought . |
| 14 | Mr Malik had a winning way with the press release . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude had a different way of looking at moral issues from the one in which I had been brought up , and judged correct . |
| 16 | And she had a sure-fire way of handling the tough Northern audiences . |
| 17 | Watkins engineering , at Sling , had a novel way of getting rid of industrial toxic waste — tip it away down an old mine shaft . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |
| 20 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |