Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 2 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 3 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 4 | Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove . |
| 5 | I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ? |
| 6 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |
| 7 | Rachel stepped out of the way as the engimatically beautiful Miss Mei-Ling walked into the office and closed the door behind her . |
| 8 | A doctrine such as the Christian belief in God as Trinity arose out of the way in which Christians experienced God as personal and in three quite distinct ways and yet as one . |
| 9 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 12 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 13 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 14 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 15 | She stood out of the way of a party of scantily clad Scandinavian women who were leaving , then waited while her eyesight adjusted to the contrasting darkness . |