Example sentences of "had a way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 32 | He had a way of listening to them as if their every word was a pearl of wisdom . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Even in his boyhood days , Tommy Courtney was the charmer who had a way with the girls . |
| 37 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | He had a way with words , my master . |