Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] way [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon three spiders were inching their way along the wall towards a small window on the ground floor . |
| 2 | That was no exaggeration , Ronni soon discovered , as fifteen minutes later they were winding their way through the narrow , colourful streets of the walled city of Alghero to climb a hill to a cliff-top where they were suddenly confronted by a breath-taking panorama of endless blue sea . |
| 3 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 4 | Well it 's a pity you did n't think of your daughter when you were whoring your way around the world , is n't it ? |
| 5 | But the crossing from Newcastle turned out to be a mini holiday in itself and very soon we were nosing our way through the islands and reefs which guard the entrance to Bergen 's Hanseatic harbour . |
| 6 | I would arrive home from Morning Service on the big day to find the chicks were fighting their way from the shells . |
| 7 | According to IRNA , another 1,000,000 Iraqi Kurds were making their way to the Iranian border . |
| 8 | Andy and Des were making their way to the 18th tee . |
| 9 | Wedged neatly between his route flying at this period was a rescue operation to collect Gen Sikorski 's staff who were making their way to the South of France , hotly pursued by the Germans . |
| 10 | A few French Commandos were making their way across the farmyard in the direction of a large barn where it appeared that someone was attempting to prepare breakfast . |
| 11 | Later , as they were making their way through the bracken , Anna said casually , ‘ Sam told me that you 're leaving your job with Luke . ’ |
| 12 | A group of Salvation Army singers were making their way along the road . |
| 13 | Other rabbits were making their way along the run and Strawberry spoke to several of them , more than once remarking that he would enjoy taking their new friends across the field . |
| 14 | A short time later they were making their way along the road that led beyond the property , and had not travelled far before Silas turned the minibus along a side-road that led towards the boundary . |
| 15 | Isobel and Dorothy were battling their way against the wind down to the bus stop , the following morning , when they met Hank hunched up in his old black zipper jacket and a pair of earmuffs , which gave him a quaintly catlike appearance . |
| 16 | While they were working their way into the hinterland , various peoples of the eastern Caucasus adopted a militant version of Islam and found a leader in the legendary Shamil . |
| 17 | Their lot was to nuzzle their way across the sea bottom , sucking up mud and refuse through their simple circular mouths , filtering out the edible particles and expelling the rest through the slits on either side of their throats . |
| 18 | Already , the swift-moving German vanguard was groping its way into the Bois des Corbeaux ; the only wood near the Mort Homme , where those well-tried infiltration tactics could be used to excellent advantage . |
| 19 | Soon I was groping my way up the tight , black corkscrew , mole-mode . |
| 20 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | A decrepit old man , supported by a young boy in a huge coolie hat , was tapping his way down the alley , patterned robes trailing in the rainwater . |
| 22 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 23 | A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from its rails , then the Arid was pushing its way through a swarm of sampans moving downriver on local errands , most of them rowed , to Joseph 's surprise , by women . |
| 24 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 25 | Before the Burford constable could reply , Detective Eddy was pushing his way through the crowd and Constable Aplin hurried after him . |
| 26 | One minute he was at the table and the next he was threading his way between the dancers , leaving Geoffrey asleep with his cheek resting on a bread roll , bits of tinsel glittering in his hair . |
| 27 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 28 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 29 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |
| 30 | She was allowed to feel she was getting her way to a certain extent , although there were certain limits . ’ |