Example sentences of "[pos pn] way [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had another coffee ; I was confused , irritable and dizzy as I stood by the buffet and watched the station cleaners , suddenly desperate to be on my way before tiredness made me change my mind . |
| 2 | ‘ He always said he would n't stand in my way if a bigger club came in for me . |
| 3 | I quite often see this at work : I love helping people out of difficult situations , but I 'm also very good at pushing people out of my way if I feel that they are a threat to me . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's precisely because of my age that I can be quite sure there wo n't be any other job coming my way if I lose this one . |
| 5 | But Martin Pipe is a realist , and never for a moment did he stand in my way when the Docklands Express ride came up . |
| 6 | I was on my way when you come up . ’ |
| 7 | Certainly I do n't let small things stand in my way when I really set out to achieve my ends . ’ |
| 8 | I drove twenty yards ahead so that the bus would not be blocking my way when it stopped at the bus stop , then I stopped and looked back . |
| 9 | He had n't better get in my way when I 'm going down there I 'll string him , I 'll make a bastard out of it |
| 10 | And it does kind of stand in my way because , for one thing , there will never be a greater guitar player than Jimi Hendrix , as long as people can remember that name . |
| 11 | Asked not to touch her , he replied : ‘ It 's my way because I 'm Italian . ’ |
| 12 | I , I mean obviously I hope the decisions will go my way because Keith has actually argued in the past that we should disregard F E , because he says it 's , it 's impossible to fairly take account of that , and what he means is there 's no F E formulae in Northallerton , so he knows that if F E is excluded Northallerton will be at a major divan |
| 13 | Women in particular may realize that the kind of relationships they have enjoyed are less likely to come their way once they reach middle age . |
| 14 | If the switch acts fast enough and at random , then the photons will be well on their way before the detector has been selected . |
| 15 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 16 | The low intensity of these rural idylls shows up the problems created by the failure of the commercially-minded companies to generate anything other than fusty , studio-bound melodramas , as unsuccessful in their way as the airy , de-sensationalized productions of their more creative competitors . |
| 17 | Fred Callaghan , the Woking coach and London cabbie , directs his Vauxhall team to Cambridge United confident that his full-strength squad will not lose their way as they did last season in falling 4-1 to the Fourth Division side . |
| 18 | Møns Klint , known all over the world , as famous in their way as the White Cliffs of Dover , would have been bound to find favour with the Hulsbys . |
| 19 | But let them advance along the road at their own pace , overcoming the obstacles on their way as best they can . |
| 20 | Numerous collisions result , yet — such is the nature of class conflict in Britain — no damage is done , and the respective crews pass on their way as though oblivious of each other , hiding in silence and averted eyes the embarrassment of foreigners with no common language . |
| 21 | There 's little hope in this film — the forces of law are as bad in their way as the drug barons . |
| 22 | This is why , after a night of south-easterly winds and rain in spring or in autumn , you can find the islands littered with small birds of many species , all desperately trying to find some food which can replenish the energy reserves sufficiently to enable them to continue on their way as soon as weather allows . |
| 23 | Yet people with more or less stable impairments , struggling to make their way as oppressed citizens , do not usually appear in professional eyes to have much in common with the majority of bewildered , vulnerable people who seek medical help . |
| 24 | Lord , they are as attractive in their way as women anywhere , or so I would suppose . |
| 25 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 26 | Because that ‘ perfectly ’ , that ‘ here ’ , are just as limiting in their way as ‘ with ’ and ‘ about ’ . |
| 27 | After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware . |
| 28 | Logie and Dujon were steering the game their way when Dujon was bowled as he stepped back for a cover drive , and that was the turning point . |
| 29 | However , bonne chance comes their way when they win a holiday for two to the city of romance … |
| 30 | The answers to the second question , of how animals find their way when migrating , can be more various . |