Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 2 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 3 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 4 | Edward kept out of the way . |
| 5 | Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove . |
| 6 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 7 | He dived headlong as he reached the top , but Burun stepped out of the way , caught his son 's sash at the back as he passed , swung him round and threw him into the wreckage of the bed again . |
| 8 | Curly Top dived out of the way , grabbing for his revolver as Adam drove past . |
| 9 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 10 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 11 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 12 | A doctrine such as the Christian belief in God as Trinity arose out of the way in which Christians experienced God as personal and in three quite distinct ways and yet as one . |
| 13 | The whole hall is convulsed to see children elbowed out of the way while the adults take over skipping ropes and doubledutch , 1920s style , fills the screen . |
| 14 | Frantic sheep ran out of the way . |
| 15 | But the wee winger from Fife bounced back in a way that says much for the survivalist instincts in the human spirit . |
| 16 | Listening to the OAE in Mozart is like hearing the nineteenth century shovelled out of the way . ’ |
| 17 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 18 | Rachel stepped out of the way as the engimatically beautiful Miss Mei-Ling walked into the office and closed the door behind her . |
| 19 | His friend Michael Kelly described how , when he became animated , his whole face lit up in a way ‘ as impossible to describe , as it would be to paint sunbeams ’ . |