Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] way [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a week before Christmas , I was beginning to see my way across the spare bedroom at home , or the stockroom as my other half styles it , and light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 2 | I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time . |
| 3 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 4 | Now I 'm finding it difficult to find my way to the correct place . |
| 5 | I waited in the kitchen until it was light enough outside for me to find my way through the deep snow back to Thrushcross Grange . |
| 6 | In other words , 18 months was not long enough for the ‘ marked ’ lead to work its way through the local food chain . |
| 7 | Finally , there were merchants , the men who organized the markets that enabled the corn or flour or bread to find its way to the hungry , the wool to the weaver , fuller and dyer , the cloth to the man who needed a new costume , timber to the shipbuilder , timber and stone to the church . |
| 8 | They can be formed on land near the sea , in shallow lakes or indeed anywhere where it is possible for a large volume of water to find its way into the volcanic vent . |
| 9 | Weak on aesthetics it undoubtedly is , and yet curiously it is the only book on drama in education lucky enough to find its way into the impressive bibliography of the 1982 Calouste Gulbenkian publication on the Arts in Schools . |
| 10 | to keep ‘ important ’ issues off the agenda£ fails to take into account the diversity of media — magazines , journals , books , radio — which allow for an enormous amount of information to find its way into the public domain . |
| 11 | Were such matter to find its way into the domestic blue-film market , the Board argued , it could have a very real tendency to deprave and corrupt , not just those of 16 , but of any age , who had been encouraged to view such material in private . |
| 12 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | There was a shortfall in orders to carry the company into the 1990s — the famous ‘ black hole ’ — and it was vastly overmanned for the amount of work that was likely to come its way in the immediate future . |
| 14 | Individuals have been trained to find their way through a simple maze , selecting white-painted passages and avoiding dark-painted ones by being given slight electric shocks when they made a wrong decision . |
| 15 | So they have to find their way into the international financial system , where they can be given a veneer of legality . |
| 16 | Both powerplants are unlikely to find their way into the five-door shell . |
| 17 | With industries and jobs disappearing around them as they still try to find their way in the new Germany , many east Germans find it comforting to enjoy some harmless fun where , for once , they get the upper hand . |
| 18 | Indeed the ability of the newcomers to find their way around the local political system has often prompted the improvement of other rural amenities , albeit on a highly selective basis . |
| 19 | In Washington , US Administration officials said the soldiers — members of the elite Green Berets — feared the rebels had left booby traps behind and waited for Salvadorean troops to work their way to the sixth floor , on which the soldiers were trapped . |
| 20 | Moreover , once imbalances have been created , they tend to work their way through the higher age groups in situ . |
| 21 | Thus the examiner must look at the bottom of the page as well as the top in order to find his way to the new question . |
| 22 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 23 | Mr Pearse first arrived at Poultry on a Friday afternoon and struggled to find his way around the quiet corridors and closed doors . |
| 24 | The concepts which it assumes as self-evident , until persistent failure to solve a problem calls attention to them , appear to an outsider as strange metaphorical structures to be examined and re-examined as he learns to find his way around the conceptual scheme . |
| 25 | Now Rocky is in , things 'll be more fluid and Brian will be able to work his way into the whole picture . |
| 26 | THIS MONTH MARK WHITEHORN EXPLAINS TWO WAYS OF SAVING YOUR GRAPHS IN LOTUS 1-2-3 , AND HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY AROUND A HARD DISK BURSTING WITH SUBDIRECTORIES . |
| 27 | The lamp-post that welcomed travellers to the inn had long lost its cursory flame , and she had neither candle nor lantern to light her way through the darkened streets . |
| 28 | Judges have a hard time trying to thread their way through the labyrinthine case law . |
| 29 | Now that I had this label — ‘ partially sighted ’ — and it was clear that my disability would become more acute , the teachers and girls at school found some semblance of the tolerance and understanding that they had previously lacked , and I slowly began to edge my way up the academic ladder . |
| 30 | Couples are forced to pick their way through the costly minefield of private childcare because Britain 's publicly funded system is desperately inadequate . |