Example sentences of "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 | British officials denied the conditions were already virtually fulfilled by Serbia , saying that Mr Milosevic ‘ had a long way to go ’ before the EC would be satisfied . |
| 4 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 5 | They had a long way to go . |
| 6 | She still had a long way to go and championship victories in Stuttgart , Rome , Seoul and Split followed , plus city marathons in Rotterdam , Chicago , Boston , Osaka and then London last year . |
| 7 | True , she probably still had a long way to go . |
| 8 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 9 | In 1926 , on any economic criterion , they still had a long way to go , when , pacified by the placebos of the previous year , they claimed a moral victory , and vanished into the archives of oblivion . |
| 10 | From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past . |
| 11 | Without this slow agricultural revolution , which still had a long way to go in many European countries in 1880 , food production would not have been able to keep up with population growth . |
| 12 | The mounted soldier still had a long way to go and his influence was very considerable in the whole period covered by this book . |
| 13 | She had a long way , still , to go . |
| 14 | We had a long way to go and to start by knocking the monarchy would n't go down too well at home . |
| 15 | The majority of people were sympathetic , but we had a long way to go before people would be shouting ‘ Honte à la reine Britannique ’ in the streets . |
| 16 | Being a mere apprentice was boring and carried no cachet , and Lydia was dauntedly aware that she had a long way to go before she achieved the skills and ease of perfection . |
| 17 | They had a long way to go before that could happen . |
| 18 | Travellers today said the Charter was a step forward , but BR still had a long way to go . |
| 19 | Anne : he had a long way to go do you think he 's done enough to survive ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'm I 'm every day people , before I met you my life was standing still , it was standing still I had a one way ticket |
| 22 | still , it was standing still I had a one way ticket |
| 23 | It means in effect that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 24 | It means , in effect , that they had a quasi-sensuous way of seeing abstractions . |
| 25 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 26 | She had a better way of rupturing that patient impassivity , of making him look at her . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ She had a strange way of showing it , then . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | James was his name , and he had a wonderful way with a poem or a recitation , and could remember dozens of really stirring examples . |