Example sentences of "has 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 | Alford claims to be a staunch Kinnock supporter ; but he has an odd way of showing it . |
| 11 | You will find no happiness , for ultimately life does not allow you to get away with anything , but rather , it has an uncanny way of asking for payment when we least expect it . |
| 12 | ‘ Your brother has an original way of trying to force people to accept his views . ’ |
| 13 | It also has an interesting way of breeding — and can be kept in small aquaria . |
| 14 | Dostoevsky has an impudent way of making his narrator declare ‘ As a chronicler I confine myself to presenting events exactly as they happened , and it 's not my fault if they appear incredible ’ — like the son of the house writing home about his time on the North-West Frontier of India . |