Example sentences of "[art] way [adv prt] [prep] the [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 | She led the way through to the nearby bedroom . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Very easy to simply turn into this lane instead of going right the way over to the other side . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Signor Ugolotti led the way up through the dense woods . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | She chatted into his ear all the way back to the big house , but he stayed silent . |
16 | Maybe the tide will start to turn shortly as the avant-garde begin to lead the way back to the old traditions . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Funny way they get them all the way out to the other side ! |
20 | Not just a religious movement , but something that involves and enmeshes every area of life , from high national , and international politics , right the way down to the very colour of the , of the latest fashions , the new age movement and sometime in the future we 're gon na lo , talk a little bit about that . |
21 | The lane ran between high banks all the way down to the big road — and the railway . |
22 | The way down on the eastern side , where I 'm bound , is not so steep , but on the other it 's a hard climb and a risky one . |
23 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
24 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
25 | The way in which the police had cleared a way through to the front door of the building at which Mr Brittan was to speak was particularly controversial . |
26 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
27 | Training in skills such as singing or dancing often seems to involve not just acquiring technique , but opening a way through to the basic level of power so that it can ‘ fuel ’ the performance . |
28 | FINDING A WAY BACK TO THE BIG COUNTRY |
29 | MICHAEL KNIGHTON will this weekend contact Manchester United 's chairman Martin Edwards to seek a way out of the financial and legal impasse caused by his £20m bid for the club . |
30 | inability to find a way out of the financial tangle that they were in . |