Example sentences of "she [verb] a way " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 2 | She was the last of the Roxborough line , he 'd said , unless she found a way to fertilize one of her girlfriends . |
| 3 | When the abuse begins she has fits , slowly she finds a way of coping by living a double life ; her life , the one she chooses and controls , exists outside her father 's house . |
| 4 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 5 | She had a way of leaving one without an answer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had a way of laughing , and singing , and it was like ice down your back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yet Batty noticed that in spite of her reserve she had a way of inspiring people to do things for her . |
| 12 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 13 | If she could not provide a remedy for life 's major troubles , she accepted a way round . |
| 14 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |