Example sentences of "had a way of " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 2 | She had a way of leaving one without an answer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had a way of stretching his long jaw forward when he was pleased . |
| 7 | Yet they had in common healthy self-esteem and the need to form passionate personal relationships , some of which had a way of overlapping . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 12 | Lee privately doubted that the majority of these contacts would be useful : favours had a way of being conveniently forgotten , and vices and indiscretions tended to lose their edge as the years passed . |
| 13 | She had a way of laughing , and singing , and it was like ice down your back . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even wars had a way of making William 's grandad redundant . |
| 16 | She had a way of never doubting other people or herself , it was headstrong , he says , and naive and infuriating , but it was also touching and one let her have her way . |
| 17 | Somehow , it seemed to Gedanken , her uncle had a way of making everything fun . |
| 18 | Boys had a way of doing things in a great hurry and then regretting them afterwards . |
| 19 | She looked so slim and young in that cream shawl above her blue taffeta gown , with the pretty frilled bonnet over her gleaming hair ; she had a way of walking , thought the watching girl , with just a little envy … so easy and graceful , even though she was with child . |
| 20 | Stephen had a way of getting what he wanted from people and then moving rapidly on . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Gustave had a way of talking about the women he had enjoyed . |
| 23 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
| 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 | Mrs Blakey had a way of saying , annoying Stephen because of the implication that everything they did had to be done together . |
| 26 | Hopes and dreams had a way of evaporating . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Those dark eyes had a way of burning into her . |