Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] way [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Perth souvenir shops , Gumpets are elbowing their way on to the shelves alongside the stock-in-trade plywood boomer angs , mallee-root ornamental clocks and kangaroo-skin sporrans . |
| 2 | They say they go out of their way to avoid trouble , having left a bar in Haymarket earlier in the evening because there was a group that seemed intent on a fight , swearing and pushing their way through to the bar . |
| 3 | Pushing his way back to the keep 's main entrance , Ramsay found Douglas emerging . |
| 4 | Cranston and Athelstan stabled their horses in a dingy tavern and walked back , forcing their way through to the great prison door . |
| 5 | I ran upstairs to see what I could , and there he was , torch and all , running down the garden and then dodging his way up to the cliff path , and fast , as if he knew exactly where he was going . |
| 6 | The intrepid band braved a precipitous mountain track snaking its way up to the highest peak on the Arabian Peninsula [ Jeebl Nabi el Shwayb — 3,666 metres , or about 12,000 feet ) . |
| 7 | DANCE is making its way back to the Liverpool arts scene following what seemed a fallow period . |
| 8 | ‘ Cissie wo n't be coming up for a while , ’ she said , making her way back to the bed , ‘ do you want to wait ? |
| 9 | So she found herself staying in a single room at one of the hotels in Monaco and the following morning making her way back to the cottage with a very much subdued André , whose head was feeling all the after-effects of too much wine . |
| 10 | Making her way back to the bedrooms , she chose the biggest one with panoramic views across the surf-lapped bay . |
| 11 | They were making their way round to the stables at the back of the Manse . |
| 12 | ‘ They look a bit , a bit dossy , do n't they ? ’ said a skinhead , surveying the beaded middle classes fighting their way on to the site . |
| 13 | This was attributed to four main factors : the chairperson had been promoted to another school ; the librarian/coordinator had been promoted to a complex and demanding pastoral role ; the reorganisation of secondary schools had imposed strains to which the activities of a library committee were an unwelcome addition ; and finally , the fact that the project purchases were now completed , with the books already finding their way on to the library shelves , appeared to be seen as an indication that the committee 's work had been completed . |
| 14 | He looked about him , his head lifted , his heart suddenly warmed by their concern for him , then turned and began making his way back to the imperial craft . |
| 15 | Down the road at the Gloucester leisure centre it was a weekend for table tennis fans … over 300 players were competing in the Cotswold Junior championships … the boys title went to Surrey … the girls to Yorkshire but local boy Ray Powell raised the roof by fighting his way through to the semi-finals |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm having it , ’ said Nutty , barging his way in to the dining-room . |
| 17 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 18 | We were soon making our way back to the road . |
| 19 | I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift . |
| 20 | Go west on part of The Cleveland Way before making your way back to the village . |
| 21 | On the train , I had been unable to imagine Flaubert ( howling like an impatient dog ? grumbling ? ardent ? ) making the same journey ; now at this point of pilgrimage , the gateposts were no help in thinking my way back to the hot reunions of Gustave and Louise . |
| 22 | I was hiding , working my way round to the Orchard to try for the pennant in there . |
| 23 | Soon after birth they start to nose and mouth at the back end of the sow , before gradually working their way round to the udder . |
| 24 | He taught for ten years before moving into industry and working his way up to the post of project manager for a major construction company . |
| 25 | He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end . |
| 26 | Picture guitarist Michael McKeegan jerking his way back to the table in the style of Gary Numan ! |