Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped their lumbering charge and , very slowly , tried to dodge out of the way . |
| 2 | Here , he could see only the occasional flutter of movement , as the fearful denizens of the area tried to keep out of the way and out of trouble . |
| 3 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 4 | He saw a car turning left , tried to move out of the way , put his foot on the brake and then the accelerator went down as well . |
| 5 | I tried to move out of the way but the car kept following me . |
| 6 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 7 | For them , theory consisted of broad speculation which seemed to need little in the way of systematic data collection , while for empirical research on social life , such theories seemed to be of little relevance . |
| 8 | Fortunately he managed to duck out of the way of a lump of glass as it speared towards his neck . |
| 9 | I was lucky , I managed to dive out of the way . |
| 10 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 11 | He had stopped twice on the way up , at Norman Cross for lunch at the Merrie England cafe , and at Dave 's Diner near Retford for a cup of tea . |
| 12 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 13 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 14 | By 1567 Thurland and the Germans were able to inform the Crown that at last they had manufactured copper on a commercial scale and that their prospecting had revealed much in the way of exploitable minerals . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , some teachers claimed that the appraisal had produced little in the way of changes and some had difficulty in remembering quite what the adviser had proposed at their own feedback session . |
| 16 | He therefore resolved to keep out of the way and let Clasper hang himself . |
| 17 | Once Richards had to dive out of the way as Tribe , twisting and stretching in his straps lurched across the formation . |
| 18 | He ‘ produced his bell and rang it , stating that that was what he did at the time ’ , but the magistrate told him ‘ that he must not think that everyone had to scamper out of the way upon hearing the sound of his bell ’ . |
| 19 | Bobo ran to the back of her cage and Fifi had to scamper out of the way to save herself from being trampled , and then Bobo was storming back with a handful of straw and dung which she hurled at Donaldson before slamming herself into the bars and screaming loudly as they shook . |
| 20 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |