Example sentences of "the way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new technology opened the way via federal contracts for new specialized ‘ merchant ’ producers such as Texas Instruments and Fairchild . |
| 2 | But now it stretched all the way down her back and Claire was making it shine like black oil . |
| 3 | Remove the first slice , then continue carving until approximately one third of the way down the ham . |
| 4 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
| 5 | He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere . |
| 6 | There was a pipe jutting through the stone wall at the tunnel 's mouth , a wide cast-iron duct that brought nasty stuff all the way down the hillside from the great well in the cellar under the stairs . |
| 7 | Habits provide the reassurance of familiarity , not just for the sequence of the day 's events , but for all sorts of minor incidents that occur — like making a pot of tea ; or for the horse , the way down the river bank so that it can drink the water . |
| 8 | Like two heavyweights all the way down the course , ’ said Probert . |
| 9 | He skipped on the surface , bouncing the rest of the way down the face . |
| 10 | He looked round and found himself three-quarters of the way down the bath . |
| 11 | My second trot sees the float dip sharply beneath the surface about two-thirds of the way down the swim . |
| 12 | It 's a cold , wet night all the way down the West coast , but as we round the Lizard , about 7:00 in , it comes on to blow hard and there 's quite a storm up the Channel until the serene sounds of Dungeness ( at 9:40 ) leading to the mysterious aleatoricism of South Foreland . |
| 13 | She could taste the cognac all the way down the Mound . |
| 14 | Biting back feelings of inadequacy , frustration and anger I tied up the bundle as well as I could , resigning myself to losing most of it on the way down the hill , preparing for laughter and jeers when we got to the village . |
| 15 | She led the way down the corridor . |
| 16 | It 's usually two-thirds of the way down the curtain or at sill height in some cases . |
| 17 | Martha was so excited that she ran all the way down the lane , arriving flushed and breathless . |
| 18 | But , since William Henry Payne set up his own practice in London in 1892 , there have been Paynes all the way down the line — including two sons , a grandson ( the current senior partner ) and a great grandson — another William — who joined this year . |
| 19 | She came two-thirds of the way down the stairs and confronted the men as they stood in the hallway . |
| 20 | The meandering river can be followed all the way down the valley . |
| 21 | I bawled all the way down the aisle … |
| 22 | It was just , like , so beautiful I even bawled — all the way down the aisle , ’ she laughs . |
| 23 | The simplest method is to use standard screw eyes , as shown opposite , or the more professional ‘ D ’ rings , and then , having fixed these screws about one-third of the way down each side of the frame , attach some nylon picture framing cord between the two . |
| 24 | About three-quarters of the way down the train Jack began to feel very frightened for the overpowering sense of impending evil became even stronger . |
| 25 | Unroll the condom all the way down the cock . |
| 26 | The trip to the Medway was sailed in 25–30 knots of wind with a 30-mile beat all the way down the Barrow to Garrison Point which pretty well ensured that this race would be a big boat benefit . |
| 27 | Control of players is crude : you always hoot ahead and can dribble the ‘ glued to foot ’ ball all the way down the pitch . |
| 28 | The Guggenheim installation worked well for me too because I was able to use a strict chronology : one thing after another all the way down the ramp . |
| 29 | I pride myself on an ability to remember route details , but I do n't think I kept to my line of ascent for more than a third of the way down the first time I did the Hornli Ridge . |
| 30 | Jenkins led the way down the stairs into the now empty bar room . |