Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 2 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 3 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 4 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 5 | Curly Top dived out of the way , grabbing for his revolver as Adam drove past . |
| 6 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 7 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 8 | Listening to the OAE in Mozart is like hearing the nineteenth century shovelled out of the way . ’ |
| 9 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |