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Example sentences of "had a way of [v-ing] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it .
2	She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head .
3	He had a way of looking at people as though they amused him , just like you might look at the antics of white mice in a cage .
4	She was beginning to think he had a way of entering her thoughts and her memory , because she had looked like that when they had made their final move — tall , slender , leggy .
5	This was no doubt because Read had a way of writing about Abstract Art in his own highly abstract manner , so that abstraction was further compounded .
6	Cortot 's left hand in particular had a way of drifting in and out of focus ( two rather than three beats in his gossamer rhythmic support in many of the Chopin waltzes ) and leading a wayward and disobedient life of its own .
7	She had a way of leaving one without an answer .
8	She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth .
9	Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on .
10	He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom .
11	He had a way of dealing with objections which , even if he did n't face them , made it appear absolutely ridiculous to maintain the opposite position .
12	Boys had a way of doing things in a great hurry and then regretting them afterwards .
13	There are growling bass reinforcements and the principal melody shouts its triumph at one point an octave higher than written , through it has to be said that Cortot had a way of making such licence irresistible .
14	Even wars had a way of making William 's grandad redundant .
15	Somehow , it seemed to Gedanken , her uncle had a way of making everything fun .
16	Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed .
17	He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking .
18	But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely .
19	Emily had a way of launching casually into an anecdote about some fix she 'd got herself into in the past and Preston would listen with increasing alarm , wondering just what he 'd got himself into .
20	Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together .
21	It was strange how Hank had a way of withdrawing from one 's company at times , just as if he had forgotten one was there .
22	But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day .
23	Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating .
24	His father had a way of losing himself in some private absorption , of not hearing when people spoke to him , and then of apologizing concernedly .
25	He had a way of stretching his long jaw forward when he was pleased .
26	She had a way of laughing , and singing , and it was like ice down your back .
27	Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her .
28	And she had a way of conjuring up places , in terms of their dimensions , that led those same children to explore their houses and fields blindfold ; the dark world that they discovered with their fingertips was new to them — but not frightening as they had supposed it to be .
29	Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped .