Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] way through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Right-ho ! ’ and he slowly squelched his way through the gate and out of sight . |
| 2 | When they were n't , we rafting rookies would leave the boats and watch the guides skilfully manoeuvre their way through the thundering foam . |
| 3 | These burrowing earthworms literally eat their way through the soil forming deep , vertical , permanent burrows with smooth walls cemented together with mucus secretions . |
| 4 | He 'd schooled himself to ruthlessness , single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle , hacking at anything in his path . |
| 5 | She blinked and swallowed but before she had time to say more Danny suddenly pushed his way through the crowd , dragging Jimmy behind him . |
| 6 | Sandy was already picking her way through the garden towards the front of the house . |
| 7 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 8 | As well as those prisoners given an amnesty , the Catholic Institute for International Relations estimates that at least 260 ex-Somocistas have already worked their way through the five stages of imprisonment and , although given long sentences , have now been released on the basis of their behaviour . |
| 9 | He describes his own ( very Darwinian ! ) experiment in which he allowed the stolons of Saxifraga sarmentosa ( a classic ‘ guerrilla ’ growth form ) to encounter an artificial vegetation that he had constructed : ‘ Many long pins were next driven rather close together into the sand , so as to form a crowd in front of … two thin lateral branches ; but these easily wound their way through the crowd . |
| 10 | The voice recordings were shipped to London where MI6 had to set up a totally new department of 250 specially recruited Russian-speaking experts to slowly work their way through the material . |
| 11 | ‘ He picked up the burning bomb , which promptly blazed its way through the handle , so the only way to put it out was by throwing on his great coat . |
| 12 | In these parts of the world , the genuine passenger still picks his way through the station encampment , with a sense almost of intruding upon the privacy of a village community . |
| 13 | When a rat became a competent maze-runner , Lashley removed part of its cerebral cortex and checked to see whether the animal could still find its way through the maze . |
| 14 | Six years and the legal system is still working its way through the small print . |
| 15 | Asmodeus , the Devil 's banker ’ — William was still working his way through the forces of Good and Evil — ‘ who was also the Maker of Bad Marriages … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ As far as I know , he 's still working his way through the list of cabin calls , then he was due to do a routine hygiene inspection . |
| 17 | By the mid-1970s the ‘ bulge ’ had nearly worked its way through the system , and this , together with disillusion with innovation in education , brought to an end the role of the education service as an expenditure growth-leader among the public services . |
| 18 | Similar cases concerning abortion law changes recenly enacted by several states , notably Pennsylvania , Louisiana , and Utah , were also working their way through the courts , but supporters and opponents of abortion deemed this case to be the most significant because the Guam law was the most explicit defiance of the Roe decision . |
| 19 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 20 | Significant trends are now working their way through the specific conditions prevailing in different cities and regions in Britain ( Goddard and Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | But this , of course , is mere speculation : I can not inhabit his mind nor even imagine my way through the dark labyrinth of its distortions and obsessions . |
| 22 | They finished their drinks and almost silently ate their way through the plate of sandwiches . |
| 23 | He landed heavily on the hall 's marble flagstones , then thrust his way through the press of people . ’ |
| 24 | He then caressed his way through the lyrical , haunting melody of Monk 's ‘ Round Midnight , throwing in a couple of surprise twists in the closing bars . |
| 25 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 26 | She shrugged then pushed her way through the grass , out into the open . |
| 27 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 28 | Barney , of course , is currently struggling his way through the next set of fabulous lyrics for the upcoming New Order album which is staggering to completion . |
| 29 | ICI and other big manufacturers are involved in four price-fixing cases currently grinding their way through the elephantine procedures of the European Community . |
| 30 | Apparently they 're the offspring of a few cabbage white butterflies which were blown across the channel , have hatched , and are currently munching their way through the garden of England . |