Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] way [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WOULD LOVE TO MASSAGE MY WAY TO A BODY BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE ( no more than 12 words ) |
| 2 | Thieves have used a mechanical digger to smash their way into a supermarket and steal a safe . |
| 3 | Lashley taught laboratory rats to find their way through a maze to a reward box . |
| 4 | Responsibility for individuals may be handed from one department or agency to another or individuals may be left to find their way through a maze of fragmented information , responsibilities and opportunities . |
| 5 | There were other advantages , too , in that the proposed arrangements would give a clear focus for informal carers and relatives ; such carers would no longer have to find their way through a maze of local services . |
| 6 | This use of diagrams enables students both to find their way around a text without losing themselves in the irrelevant detail of intensive reading , and also to identify parts without having to name them . |
| 7 | When we asked how this had been allowed to happen , we discovered that the children were expected to work their way through a maths text book ‘ at their own pace ’ with no specific instruction from the teacher . |
| 8 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 9 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 10 | While Charlie quickly mastered the art of mapreading it was Tommy who took only a day to find his way round a rifle . |
| 11 | It is much easier to work your way through a list , particularly if you are dealing with things that may embarrass or upset you , than it is to try and create order out of a general conversation . |
| 12 | Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change . |
| 13 | Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change . |
| 14 | ’ She broke off to pick her way round a patch of mud . |
| 15 | She was half anticipating having to fight her way through a jungle of undergrowth to reach the front door . |
| 16 | They had to force their way through a tangle of bushes and branches . |
| 17 | Burglars tried to force their way into a house in Northallerton . |
| 18 | No path existed so that Trent had to force his way into a wall of vegetation . |
| 19 | ‘ You have to learn to think your way around a golf course much more as a pro , ’ he says . |
| 20 | You know I am free to gamble my way into a debtor 's prison . |
| 21 | ‘ To my godson , Robert Benedict Beckenham , the sum of twenty thousand pounds with which to gamble his way into a debtor 's prison … ’ |
| 22 | ( Somehow , he 's managed to wangle his way into a trip to the States while we 're stuck here writing the news . |
| 23 | Eva 's old friend Shadwell was starting to make his way as a theatre director , working as an assistant at the Royal Shakespeare Company , running workshops on Beckett and putting on plays by Artaud and new writers at fringe venues . |