Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got me out of the way while you put your nasty little heads together ! ’ |
| 2 | They moved them out of the way but not out of the district , just to somewhere handy where they could easily pick them up . |
| 3 | Grasping her elbow , Donal moved her out of the way of the small bridesmaid who seemed to have got over-excited and was racing around with someone 's little boy . |
| 4 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 5 | ‘ Now look what you 've made me do ! ’ she exclaimed agitatedly , then gasped in surprise when Leo got lazily to his feet , grasped both her elbows and lifted her out of the way . |
| 6 | As he lunged for her she threw herself out of the way and looked desperately for a way out . |
| 7 | Turned it round on the way back driving merrily towards the arch very happily past the pub on the left and the playing fields where they were about to play rugby I suspect . |
| 8 | There were two , but she knotted one out of the way . |
| 9 | Without speaking , she elbowed him out of the way and continued with her baking , thumping and banging the dough into shape , all the time her tears falling silently . |
| 10 | The monster , coming forward , knocked him out of the way with one sweep of an arm as he marched towards the prone figure of his creator . |
| 11 | Mr Miller knocked him out of the way but fell under the machine himself . |
| 12 | He knocked it out of the way , reached into the dark space above , and drew out his record book . |
| 13 | Brigadier Canford admired the lightning reflexes , the way she adjusted to a not-very-easy pony in seconds and showed up the others as she ruthlessly shoved them out of the way and cat-and-mouse-whipped the ball away just as they were about to hit it . |
| 14 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 15 | Church was too slow and Woolley 's shoulder barged him out of the way . |
| 16 | He dropped it on the floor and Jess kicked it out of the way . |
| 17 | Carradine kicked it out of the way . |
| 18 | ‘ Just that it looked as though he wanted me out of the way . ’ |
| 19 | I pushed them out of the way and took the cat off the tree . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , this big chap sort of pushed me out of the way a bit . |
| 21 | Once he nearly caught it but someone pushed him out of the way at the last moment . |
| 22 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |
| 23 | Michael pushed him out of the way . |
| 24 | He pushed him out of the way . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher departed for the United States because the Conservative Party wanted her out of the way for the last week of the campaign . |
| 26 | Her hearers found it difficult to believe that this screaming was involuntary ; some thought she was drunk , or ill , or possessed by an evil spirit , but most of them just wanted her out of the way : ‘ some wished she was on the sea in a bottomless boat ’ . |
| 27 | Suppose he really meant to find her first , because he wanted her out of the way . |