Example sentences of "[pron] way [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think I 'll make my way over to the big house and see how things are going . ’ |
| 2 | It was an easy matter to buy my way on to the same flight . |
| 3 | The boredom , the sheer yuk of it swept over me as I pushed my way out of the sick smell of the phone box . |
| 4 | I take a look in the file as I make my way down to the main entrance . |
| 5 | On the train , I had been unable to imagine Flaubert ( howling like an impatient dog ? grumbling ? ardent ? ) making the same journey ; now at this point of pilgrimage , the gateposts were no help in thinking my way back to the hot reunions of Gustave and Louise . |
| 6 | I yawned my way back to the Narrow Neck . |
| 7 | ‘ I was always hopeful that I would be able to fight my way back into the representative scene but that was the early chance I needed ’ , recalled Roebuck . |
| 8 | And on Sunday , the Archbishop of Canterbury , George Carey ( at a service of dedication to mark — of all things — the advent of the single European market ) , inveighed against the ‘ trickle-down ’ theory of wealth distribution , whereby ever-higher incomes for the wealthy are somehow supposed ‘ naturally ’ to find their way through to the poor . |
| 9 | They 've won their way through to the first round of the FA Cup where they 'll be away to West Bromwich Albion . |
| 10 | Cranston and Athelstan stabled their horses in a dingy tavern and walked back , forcing their way through to the great prison door . |
| 11 | Seven members had won their way through to the British Finals . |
| 12 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 13 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 14 | The stairs were still sound and both boys made their way up to the top floor . |
| 15 | But instead of waiting on the same platform for an Edgware train , they made their way up to the British Rail terminus , and in the men 's lavatory the bear got into his bear suit . |
| 16 | The promise of plenty of planting can prove useful to a company in search of planning permission , so Waterers has found its services increasingly in demand by supermarket giants Sainsbury 's and Tesco as they try and inveigle their way on to the green belt . |
| 17 | This will be particularly important in our efforts to explore the ways in which the private traumas of married couples have found their way on to the public agendas of churchmen , politicians , policy makers and others over a fifty year period . |
| 18 | So it becomes very much more common with , among sort of lower middle classes , the people who are working their way out of the working classes . |
| 19 | ( Several delegates were heard to mutter , ‘ Surely that write-off/obsolescence figure was too low ’ , as they made their way out of the main meeting room . ) |
| 20 | Even where the entrances were very well hidden by ploughing and cultivation , the rabbits somehow found their way back to the selfsame underground burrows their predecessors had used for generations . |
| 21 | But Tottenham 's problems pale by comparison with those of last night 's opponents ; should Coventry beat Sheffield Wednesday at home tonight and win or draw here on Saturday , then County will be on their way back to the Second Division . |
| 22 | They had met when dining at English 's Oyster House , and were on their way back to the rebuilt Grand Hotel for a night-cap and bed . |
| 23 | Despite these dangers many birds find their way back to the same spots year after year . |
| 24 | Thoughts of that previous one only crept their way back with the forbidden thought of a child . |
| 25 | I wait by the gate as they pick their way down to the slimy bottom of the dip . |
| 26 | As the smoke from the fire gently filters upwards through the drying malted barley , the peat gently imparts its distinctive aroma , which will in time find its way through to the finished malt whisky . |
| 27 | A presence forcing its way through from the Other Side . |
| 28 | The intrepid band braved a precipitous mountain track snaking its way up to the highest peak on the Arabian Peninsula [ Jeebl Nabi el Shwayb — 3,666 metres , or about 12,000 feet ) . |
| 29 | A significant proportion of this expenditure found its way in to the mass media field . |
| 30 | There is every chance that the IDO application will eventually find its way back to the Welsh Office , who have declined to ‘ call it in ’ voluntarily . |