Example sentences of "[noun] make [pron] way [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Heat struck through the thin soles of her sandals as , joining the straggling file of other passengers , Luce made her way across the tarmac towards the rather unprepossessing terminal building .
2 Doyle made his way through the crowded , smoky billiard hall , towards the bar at the end , where he could see Bodie nonchalantly sipping a coke .
3 Kelly made her way through the crowd , vaguely aware of the chatter of people whose dull lives had briefly been made more exciting by another 's misfortune .
4 Kelly made her way through the hall towards the front door .
5 Swearing as her dead left hand crashed into a chair in the dark , Jezrael made her way across the room , sat down facing him .
6 Cuckoo-bees make their way into the nests of other kinds of bees and leave their eggs there to be tended and reared by others .
7 Branson made his way to the club — situated , by a felicitous coincidence , directly opposite Coutts 's head office in the Strand — and wandered beneath the flashing strobe-lights , more fascinated than intimidated by the spectacle of 1,500 moustachioed , bejeaned and leather-clad males gyrating to the strains of ‘ I Want a Man ’ .
8 Realising that the aircraft had crashed , two witness made their way to the wreckage in order to assist the pilot .
9 As Kelly stood watching the string , her hands sunk deep into her windcheater pockets , Harry Short 's Mercedes made its way along the gallops between the path and the road .
10 His great black horse made its way through the crowd of menservants until he came alongside the princess 's window .
11 The new groups who were in the charts , even as the British Task Force made its way across the Atlantic — Duran Duran , ABC , Spandau Ballet — suggested that , of all things , fun was once again back in fashion .
12 Corbett made his way through the thick clogged sand and entered the first one .
13 The blizzard was worse now , and what little light made its way between the flakes was failing .
14 A cold grey light made its way round the corners of the curtains and trickled into the room .
15 I remember that between a death and the subsequent funeral the street would be very quiet , pianos were locked , children were not allowed to play anywhere near the house and on the day of interment , all blinds were drawn , whilst as the cortege made its way to the Cemetery people would stop , the men always removing headgear .
16 I plan a scene here in which the car makes its way through the vast landscape , the wounded Masai lying in the back .
17 There were rumours of snow on the way and , as Governor Peter Nicholson made his way across the exercise yard of Whitely Prison , he could believe them .
18 A few weeks later and quite unrelated to David 's experience a group of children from a neighbouring village made their way over the fields for a walk with their dogs .
19 So the striped cat made her way to the garden of the tower .
20 Simon made his way over the cracked linoleum on the hall floor and pushed the door open .
21 On her first opening day , 300 visitors made their way up the farm 's single-track drive .
22 Six thousand visitors made their way to the Business Design Centre in Islington , London to see the exhibits , which ranged from tableware to floorcoverings , fashion to fabrics .
23 Firefighters wearing special protective clothing made their way through the dense smoke towards the fuel flask .
24 Visitors making their way to the upper levels .
25 And the next morning when they get up Ruth makes his way into the town , and he goes to where all the , the men sit and they talk , the city gate , and there he he searches out the nearer relative of Ruth 's .
26 He turns , but the girl has managed to flee by the fire escape as Lepine makes his way to the bookstore .
27 Here two men , a ship 's officer and a gently born younger son sent from England to make his way in the world , are involved in certain events which are , as it were , by-products of civil war .
28 This more distant fire let up long enough , however , for the column to make its way beside the buildings on the east side of the basin .
29 The next 12 miles from Sheriff Hutton to Coneysthorpe makes its way via the hamlet of Stittenham over to the village of Terrington .
30 As the group made its way into the reception area , Bliss tugged at D'Arcy 's sleeve .
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