Example sentences of "[verb] his way [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She watched as Callum wove his way through the various clusters of people and found her eyes irresistibly drawn to the corner where Luke stood , surrounded by a large group of his friends . |
| 2 | To return to the T&C ( yet again ) NICK CAVE , mid-blistering set , was joined by a disgustingly fit looking SHANE MACGOWAN , who wove his way through the old Louis Armstrong classic ‘ Wonderful World ’ with tricky Nick . |
| 3 | He paused only to smooth down his unruly black hair and tuck his vest into his pants before groping his way down the long dark corridor to the kitchen door . |
| 4 | Thus the examiner must look at the bottom of the page as well as the top in order to find his way to the new question . |
| 5 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 6 | Mr Pearse first arrived at Poultry on a Friday afternoon and struggled to find his way around the quiet corridors and closed doors . |
| 7 | The concepts which it assumes as self-evident , until persistent failure to solve a problem calls attention to them , appear to an outsider as strange metaphorical structures to be examined and re-examined as he learns to find his way around the conceptual scheme . |
| 8 | The shop was dimly lit and cluttered but he found his way to the front door which was bolted ; Alfred had not left and could not return that way . |
| 9 | At last they reached Hastings , where Silas found his way to the suburban street of quality homes . |
| 10 | It was in this way that ‘ Helmut Wolski ’ found his way to the British , and through them to Britain and , once in London where jobs were scarce , to a job through an army friend at London Zoo , his family , his past , his very name all gone . |
| 11 | Dale McIntosh might sound as through he comes from North of the Border , but one look at the young no.8 's Maori features makes you wonder how he found his way into the Scottish squad . |
| 12 | Now Rocky is in , things 'll be more fluid and Brian will be able to work his way into the whole picture . |
| 13 | ‘ But … ’ she started to protest , but he was already walking away from her , weaving his way through the seated audience , shouldering past the standing groups . |
| 14 | He rode ahead into the mist , picking his way across the encumbered ground . |
| 15 | Vic nods his thanks , turns left , then right again , picking his way through the broad , tree-lined residential streets with practised ease . |
| 16 | A dark curtain of cloud hung over the horizon to the north as Dexter weaved his way through the clotted traffic on the Kentish Town Road . |
| 17 | The woodwork again came to Monaghan 's rescue eight minutes from time when Coyle weaved his way into the United penalty area , only to see his shot flicked onto the upright by O'Shea . |
| 18 | Once again Benjamin used his warrant , pushing his way through the grumbling spectators until we had a good view of both the execution scene and Smithfield Common . |
| 19 | He turned and left the room , threading his way between the deserted tables to vanish in the warm , wood-scented half-darkness of the hall . |
| 20 | Threading his way past the echoing warehouses , boarded shop fronts , and silent cafes , he returned to the concrete hut , only to find there the body of Philip Walton . |
| 21 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 22 | Having made his way into the main draw via six rounds in the preliminary and qualifying competitions , he fell just short of a major upset in the first round proper . |
| 23 | Only a sharp expression in the eyes suggested how he had made his way in the do-or-die world of modern publishing , where niceness gets you nowhere . |
| 24 | Rolling out , he wriggled his way across the dry sand , all churned up with trippers ' footprints , out to the firm , wet sand made smooth and level again by the tide . |
| 25 | It was his habit to patrol the streets of the City , declaiming the Gospel according to Shakespeare to passers-by , emoting his way through the great speeches in the hope of earning a few drinks . |
| 26 | Fireman Robb shouldered his way through the bat-wing doors of the ‘ Seven Seas ’ on the corner of Kilbowie Road . |
| 27 | Once again he threw the cumbersome fish over his shoulder and began squelching his way across the boggy field . |
| 28 | TENNIS heart-throb Andre Agassi smashed his way into the last 16 in the US Open yesterday — and won a kiss from movie star Barbra Streisand ( inset ) who must have pulled some special strokes to get past the minders at New York 's Flushing Meadow . |
| 29 | He worked his way down the right side of the road . |
| 30 | So it was that Levi worked his way down the last holes at Glen Abbey . |