Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] way [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two men posing as electricity board workmen escaped with £700 after tricking their way into the home of a 78-year-old woman at Greenside , near Gateshead . |
| 2 | After twisting our way up the long trail we finally reached the North Rim just after midday , feeling like redeemed souls struggling out of a magnificent inferno . |
| 3 | A WOMAN clutching a baby stole an elderly woman 's purse after conning her way into the pensioner 's home . |
| 4 | A WOMAN clutching a baby stole an elderly lady 's purse after conning her way into the pensioner 's home . |
| 5 | Owen loved the bustle of the bazaars , of the whole native city , in fact ; but after you had spent some time in them , especially when it was as hot as this , you felt an overwhelming need for space and air , and after forcing their way through the blocked thoroughfares of the Tentmakers ' Bazaar they were glad to emerge into the more open streets . |
| 6 | Nicol has been one of Liverpool 's most consistent defensive performers after forcing his way into the side following his £300,000 move from Ayr United . |
| 7 | After making her way into the fashion business as a freelance designer and as a partner with Ann Buck in Tuttabankem from 1969 to 1974 , Hamnett set up Katharine Hamnett Ltd on a £500 loan in 1979 . |
| 8 | Here we offer a guide to what is worth pushing your way to the front of the crowd for . |
| 9 | They had exchanged the slow passage through the forest for picking their way over the rocks and boulders that littered the banks of the upper reaches of the river . |
| 10 | But developing countries with large supplies of natural gas have turned to direct reduction as a way of forcing their way into the steelmaking industry relatively cheaply . |
| 11 | He looked very well and was full of talk of making his way in the world and starting a business some day . |
| 12 | One or two other species of bird have developed a much more accurate technique of finding their way in the dark . |
| 13 | A tape-counter readout in the finder is a very convenient way of finding your way around the recordings which are already on the tape , and there may be other indicators such as ‘ SP/LP ’ to remind you of the operating mode . |
| 14 | The evening was wearing on and I was nervous of finding my way through the maze of central Prague by night . |
| 15 | And she 'd been nicknamed ‘ Scatty ’ because of a habit of daydreaming her way through the mundane bits of life . |
| 16 | Frank Sinatra ( another of her liaisons ) introduced her to the Kennedys , and the prospect of working her way into the uppermost levels of American political life appealed to her enormously . |
| 17 | The same reasoning could equally well apply to weasels and badgers , who live in burrows , but the Hopi follow a quite different line of thought ; they hold that the meat of these animals is favourable to child-rearing because of their habit of working their way through the ground and ‘ getting out ’ at some other place when they are chased into a hole . |
| 18 | THE ART of bluffing your way in the classic car game is a simply learned one , and consists of little more than memorising one derogatory generalisation about each make of car . |
| 19 | If the stress of battling your way through the thousands of people milling around 200 stalls gets to you , then try Dove Healthcare Limited 's electronic acupuncture . |
| 20 | Of those arrested for forcing their way into the NSF headquarters , 38 were convicted on Feb. 23 of public order offences ; 11 were imprisoned for up to six months and the rest were fined . |
| 21 | I mean we 've always associated Forest with playing their way into the penalty area now with Rozario er with Collimore they 've got the licence or the facility just to knock long balls through the air at them . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | After briefly getting lost in the fog , he finally succeeded in groping his way to the headquarters of Liechtenstein 's cavalry . |
| 24 | ‘ In my own time we 've lost four cham always do so well before losing our way in the second half . |
| 25 | It was noted that to engage in such activities , people needed to feel that they had special areas of competence whether , for example , in knowing how to lift people , in tending the dying , and in knowing your way round the system . |
| 26 | ‘ The paper was just getting too unwieldly , we needed to give our readers some help in finding their way around the paper , ’ says Mr Fontaine . |
| 27 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 28 | This was to prevent the fine gravel from finding its way through the undergravel plate . |
| 29 | A shoal of stout brown fish swam round and round in circles in a ghostly saraband before making their way to the entrance to the stream . |
| 30 | As the days became warmer they would go to the pond to feed the ducks and then along to the terraced rose gardens before making their way to the nearby swings and roundabouts in the small enclosed area . |