Example sentences of "[verb] my way [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a week before Christmas , I was beginning to see my way across the spare bedroom at home , or the stockroom as my other half styles it , and light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 2 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |
| 3 | I put the list away in my file , lock the room and carefully pick my way down the little staircase . |
| 4 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 5 | After a few days my condition improved , the weather changed dramatically , and I made my way across the cultivated , fertile fields of Normandy . |
| 6 | Ignoring them , I made my way to the Norman castle . |
| 7 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 8 | I felt a strange sensation in my stomach as I made my way down the sloping gangway and on to the tarmac , If I had felt like this on the morning of the 6th June , Lord Lovat would probably been going ashore without his bagpipe music . |
| 9 | I left them to it and made my way along the inner side of the curving wall towards the doorway . |
| 10 | The woods crowd in on me as I make my way along the ancient track . |
| 11 | At seven on the Saturday night of the prêt-à-porter showings , I make my way up the mirrored staircase in Chanel 's couture house in the rue Cambon . |
| 12 | I keep crouched and make my way through the low bushes , heading diagonally through the wood towards the estate . |
| 13 | I walk slowly through the tunnel beneath the line , one of a dozen returning commuters , cross over the road with ten of them , make my way through the gnarled little streets beyond the redundant town hall with eight of the ten , and begin to climb the scarp of the South London hills with the remaining five . |
| 14 | I threaded my way between the various broken churches , towers and columns to the entrance-exhibition where posters announced that fibreglass imitations of the stone carvings were soon to be set up outside . |
| 15 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 16 | Soon I was groping my way up the tight , black corkscrew , mole-mode . |
| 17 | Now I 'm finding it difficult to find my way to the correct place . |
| 18 | I waited in the kitchen until it was light enough outside for me to find my way through the deep snow back to Thrushcross Grange . |
| 19 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 20 | But this , of course , is mere speculation : I can not inhabit his mind nor even imagine my way through the dark labyrinth of its distortions and obsessions . |
| 21 | I elbowed my way through the nosey parkers gossiping in the yard and ran home to tell Dad my good news . |
| 22 | ‘ Often I have bent my way to the great entrance of Studley and seen twenty or more carriages waiting , unhorsed , for the return of the parties they had deposited in the morning and who were now rambling in all directions . |
| 23 | I worked my way along the haphazard-looking perimeter fence formed from the tombs of kings and bishops ; all one piece , all stitched together by a web of carved stone and iron railings . |
| 24 | Latterly I was digitalised and pulsed my way across the dark convexities of visual-display units . |
| 25 | Cedric had n't changed a bit and I had to battle my way to the broken armchair by the fireside . |
| 26 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 27 | As the overture reaches ‘ Hi-Ho ’ , I grope my way across the pitch-black stage until my outstretched hands make contact with a rostrum set centre-stage . |
| 28 | So I continued south , making my way along the great chalk road which snaked across the Downs to Dover . |
| 29 | I followed the sound of voices coming from the bluebell wood , there was the acrid smell of wood-smoke and an orange glow lit my way through the wild garlic . |
| 30 | The coffee hit the spot , though , and I drank my way through the whole pot and threw in a couple of cigarettes for good measure . |