Example sentences of "he had [art] way " in BNC.

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1 He had no way of knowing what the President thought .
2 He had no way of knowing how close the others were so he made a big detour .
3 Now he had no way to track the cursed creature …
4 ‘ You leave her … the fuck … alone , ’ Gentle gasped , knowing even as he spoke he had no way of enforcing this edict in his present state .
5 The web was so finely woven that he had no way forward but by continuing the deceit .
6 The heat had burnt away the coloured insulation so he had no way of telling what functions they governed .
7 He had no way of carrying them all off , but two of the volumes were dated to cover the period of the insulin project as Diane had described it .
8 My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that as a result of the advice that he was given by Mr er it was clear to him that he had no way out of this contract , that he was committed to it and that he had no choice but to proceed with the matter and there was then er further discussion on the telephone on this day , Friday , between Mr and Mr to where they were going here and Mr said he would now write to the plaintiff setting out what his options were to him and the letter than was sent by Mr was dated the twenty second of October and the letter , the relevant terms of this letter are set out in a statement of claim expressing at paragraph three eleven of this statement saying and of course er that is admitted by the er defendant .
9 But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he .
10 When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service .
11 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 .
12 He had a way of stretching his long jaw forward when he was pleased .
13 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 .
14 he had a way with him and he was , got on very well with Mr and er he told us afterwards that erm the whole trouble was that the children 's baths had leaked that morning
15 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 .
16 He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom .
17 He had a way with words , my master .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 He wished he had the way of talking to women , to individual strangers .
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