Example sentences of "[vb past] make [pron] way [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 2 | There must have been a proportion of shy , bashful ones around , but they were not in evidence amongst the mob which harassed us day by day as we tried to make our way around the town on our own affairs . |
| 3 | Many went to Paris to find work , but after the fall of France they began making their way to the cities of the south , where they could live in safety . |
| 4 | The oars dipped unhurriedly in the calm water , and when the boat eventually arrived at the shore there was a further infuriating delay before the procession formed up and began making its way round the harbour to Ballingolin . |
| 5 | Mr Grover was as good as his word and on Christmas morning soon after breakfast a very strange procession began making its way from the market . |
| 6 | Her soft-soled sandals did n't make a sound as she crossed the terrace , then she began to make her way through the walled garden , towards the corner where she thought she had seen something — or someone — move . |
| 7 | She began to make her way to the door . |
| 8 | She found a heavy staff , hefted it and began to make her way to the gate , to go out and beat Tig back to his domain . |
| 9 | She began to make her way towards the entrance to the Pit . |
| 10 | Then she began to make her way down the plane to find Greg , who had oxygen , and David , who would have glyceryl trinitrate in his case . |
| 11 | Paul sat down and began to make his way through the pile of unread papers on the table . |
| 12 | I began to make my way towards the doors , but before I could reach them , M. Dupont touched my arm . |
| 13 | This order was maintained as the runners came past the stands and started to make their way along the back stretch , and with half a mile to go the field was tightly bunched . |
| 14 | Robert started to make his way across the garden towards the two of them . |
| 15 | The driver , though bound and gagged , managed to make his way to the roadside where he was found . |
| 16 | He disliked the estate car almost as much as the Suffolk Punch , which was why he preferred to make his way around the streets of Dynmouth on a bicycle . |
| 17 | To wait for their enemy , the ordinary people of Famagusta had made their way to the heart of the city , where the Cathedral soared like a vast triangled reliquary , flanked by princely buildings and faced , across the piazza , by the handsome , doorless shell of the Palace . |
| 18 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 19 | Madame interrupted with a seven-minute lecture summarising the economics of the real Marguerite Gautier 's career , explaining exactly how and why she had made her way through the Paris of the 1840s with such skill and courage … |
| 20 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 21 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 22 | Only a sharp expression in the eyes suggested how he had made his way in the do-or-die world of modern publishing , where niceness gets you nowhere . |
| 23 | Like many Welshmen in and around the Neath and Swansea valleys , he had made his way from the more rural communities of West Glamorganshire and Carmarthenshire , up the valleys towards Brecon , and then moved eastwards towards the concentration of new industries at Dowlais , Merthyr , Rhymney , Tredegar , Beaufort , Ebbw Vale , and Pontypool . |
| 24 | On another occasion , the train left the rails near Zhmerinka Station and the Tsar had to make his way to the station on foot . |
| 25 | Under the terms of the pardon , the commander was not empowered to accept Macdonald 's submission and the old man had to make his way through the blizzard to Inveraray . |
| 26 | He described how one of the monks , Brother Camille Mabilais , hid retreating British airmen who failed to make their way to the boats at Dunkirk . |