Example sentences of "[art] way [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Grimes led the way round to the back door and ‘ the ash boy let them in , yawning horribly ’ ; soon Tom was ‘ in pitchy darkness , as much at home in a chimney as a mole is underground ’ . |
| 2 | A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge . |
| 3 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 4 | I have played all the way through to the First Division , where we lasted only one season before relegation . |
| 5 | She led the way through to the nearby bedroom . |
| 6 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 7 | Very easy to simply turn into this lane instead of going right the way over to the other side . |
| 8 | But the sale had its quirks too : enthusiasm among bidders for an inelegantly and oddly shaped sixteenth-century Lombard dignitary 's chair in walnut pushed the price all the way up to a staggering FFr900,000 ( £93,500 ; $162,700 ) , a world record for a chair of the period and almost twenty times the estimate . |
| 9 | He led the way up to the first landing , where Charlie had had his bedsit . |
| 10 | No point in taking trouble with him ; no point in explaining that he 'd walked all the way up to the blooming rectory to set his mind at rest . |
| 11 | Tammuz led the way up to the second floor , where he 'd spread himself out through two labs , an office and a washroom . |
| 12 | It was the last block in the street and the side wall was supported by a network of wooden scaffolding that stretched all the way up to the fifth floor . |
| 13 | Charlie felt indifferent as each of the decorated men was announced and his citation read out until he heard the name of Lieutenant Arthur Harvey who , the colonel told them , had led a charge of Number Eleven Platoon all the way up to the German trenches , thus allowing those behind him to carry on and break through the enemy 's defences . |
| 14 | History suggests very strongly that class tells more often than not at this stage of the competition , although it is certainly not unknown for a Second Division side to go all the way up to the royal box and collect the trophy . |
| 15 | Signor Ugolotti led the way up through the dense woods . |
| 16 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 17 | On the way back with the dirty cup and the milkless liquid Hilary Seymour-Strachey once more looked around at his own exhibition with the expression of frank self-approval Greg had noticed before . |
| 18 | And via a now explicit association with anality , especially sodomy , homosexuality becomes a paradigm of sterility and solipsism , while heterosexuality is regarded as the way back to a dynamic , creative encounter with the other : in the woman the man embraces ‘ all that is not himself ’ and from that embrace ‘ comes every new action ’ ( quoted in Delany , Nightmare , 79 ) . |
| 19 | Like the Beatles , Keegan was a legend in Liverpool and he has given United a dream ticket to ride all the way back to the Premier League . |
| 20 | The lithe vessel left a white wake that stretched all the way back to the long iron and glass walkway of the railway terminal , a thin cord of foam linking the crowded paddle-steamer to a solid world of steam trains , corner shops , and utility furniture . |
| 21 | Or survivals at the level of colour : liking for flat and intense colours , local earth and vegetable dyes , which may go all the way back to the ancient textile traditions such as that of the Paracas culture in Peru . |
| 22 | Such information implies a distance of 16 thousand million light years and that the galaxy is seen at a time 83% of the way back to the Big Bang . |
| 23 | She chatted into his ear all the way back to the big house , but he stayed silent . |
| 24 | Maybe the tide will start to turn shortly as the avant-garde begin to lead the way back to the old traditions . |
| 25 | It brings us all the way back to the basic concept of human selfishness and the selflessness which typifies the agape love which God demands as well as empowers . |
| 26 | Mind you , I still think that now on the way back from a long hill-walk when I can just make out a dot that is the car . |
| 27 | On the way back from the classical ruins of Byblos in an old red and green school bus , co-opted by the bus company for the tourist trade , we drive down the coastal highway into Beirut from the north , towards Martyrs ' Square , so soon to become the front line . |
| 28 | ‘ The only way to find the way out of a single-exit maze consisting of mutually accessible junctions is to follow the paths until you find the way out . |
| 29 | In the same year the Church of England led the way out of a moral impasse which trapped the Catholic Church by giving birth control its blessing under the name of Family Planning . |
| 30 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |