Example sentences of "[verb] their way [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped .
2 Wright , full of vigour and invention , was the motivating force as the Gunners made their way into the next round , where they must travel to Scarborough two days before Christmas .
3 Gayle made it 2–0 with a sweet 36th-minute volley , but the visitors lost their way in the second period .
4 After supplying his sixth goal of the season , Shaughnessy forced Beasley into a full length save yet Runcorn completely lost their way in the second half .
5 His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was .
6 He 'd never ceased to find fascination within its pages , for it was Maybellome 's intention to make an encyclopaedia listing all the flora , fauna , languages , sciences , ideas , moral perspectives — in short , anything that occurred to her — that had found their way from the Fifth Dominion , the Place of the Succulent Rock , through to the other worlds .
7 Andy and Des were making their way to the 18th tee .
8 But he has accepted the captaincy of his club , Blackrock College , who won their way to the second division of the All Ireland League in 1990–91 and Mullin will devote all his playing activities to Rock 's welfare .
9 To this end the Object-Oriented Cobol Task Group was set up by the American National Standards Institution in 1990 and will report back sometime this year with recommendations that will eventually find their way into the next version of ANSI Cobol around 1997 .
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