Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 2 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 3 | Alternatively , they may be lifted up the backstay by shockcord to keep them out of the way . |
| 4 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 5 | I tried everything , even hiring an off-duty castrato to hold them out of the way , but nothing worked . |
| 6 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 7 | Their houses , the tall , crumbling tenements with their cracked roof tiles and their creaking balconies huddle together round the church as if they want to shoulder it out of the way . |
| 8 | After Power Behind the Throne , the powers-that-be in Middenheim might well send the adventurers off to Castle Drachenfels in an attempt to get them out of the way — if they should chance to die in the Castle , their embarrassing knowledge will die with them . |
| 9 | and then you take your long end and you wind above covering the edge and overlapping and then the low , then covering the edge and overlapping , there and again you keep working your way up and down , a figure of eight until you get to the end of your bandage then tie away from the body in your reef knot , either you tuck your ends in or if that 's awkward you can just put a sticking plaster over the ends to get them out of the way like that , so just tuck the ends in and I do n't think your casualty 's going to need a sling for a little graze like that |
| 10 | The Lord Willington looked the sort of place into which dishonest rascals might put their inconvenient relations in order to get them out of the way : uncles with the DTs , incontinent aunts , senile grandads , and cousins who 'd been odd since they were born . |
| 11 | " I 'm sorry , can I … " she motioned towards the door , and he helped her through the packed people , using his elbow to get them out of the way . |
| 12 | In Darcy 's Utopia there are bound to be children , but their parents will be carefully selected , and being in short supply they will grow up in a world which loves and admires children and finds them interesting , and does n't herd them together in schools to get them out of the way , dunk them in front of obscene videos to keep them quiet , and slap them about and threaten them in the streets , which is what happens in this society of ours which you seem to find both perfectly ordinary , and , worse , inevitable . |
| 13 | I 've just got to get them out of the way before I get back to work . ’ |
| 14 | Gharr had already tried to get me out of the way — probably thinking that Mala would collect it and her too . |
| 15 | We can both feel the strain plucking at the atmosphere , so when I say I 'll return the keys to the landlord she gives me his address to get me out of the way . |
| 16 | He planned to get me out of the way so he could bid for the portmanteau . |
| 17 | ‘ We have to get you out of the way before we deal with the Emperor . ’ |
| 18 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
| 19 | Josie said that she did n't usually get in until around six , but that there were a few extra jobs that she wanted to finish off ; Lucy had the feeling , but did n't say so , that the main point of the exercise was probably to get her out of the way before the slender red-haired woman arrived home . |
| 20 | Nobody would have cared ; been relieved , more like , to have him out of the way . |
| 21 | They had their midday meal fairly early , so as to have it out of the way before their peculiar visitor arrived . |
| 22 | Now I think what te , what happened there was we er , we drifted away from setting down sc , er , er , scripts to finding good useful key words and phrases out of the paper that we could then fit into the script , and as it had gone that way , I realised it was working , and did n't see any point in trying to get it back to the way it was originally going , because it was going fine . |
| 23 | It was not scheduled until later that night , but since the ATO team are there they decide to get it out of the way . |
| 24 | Those who say they like washing up do not like the task itself — one woman likes it because she has a dishwasher , one because she has just acquired a new stainless steel sink , and the third likes it merely ‘ to get it out of the way ’ . |
| 25 | Could I just raise one quick issue which I was going to mention under any other business but I 'd like to get it out of the way , and that is er the departure . |
| 26 | put that forward and to get it out of the way . |
| 27 | We want to get it out of the way before it starts escalating . |
| 28 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |