Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |
| 2 | He had driven home slowly and stopped twice on the way at the Hollybush at Newark and at the Merrie England . |
| 3 | Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in . |
| 4 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 5 | That morning , the Gaelic voices rose and fell excitedly on the way back from the burn as the three women talked of the news their husbands brought — news of a new born baby on the other side of the island or a death on a neighbouring isle . |
| 6 | Quiss stumbled out of his seat , almost falling , scooped a flat piece of slate from the floor and threw it at the red crow , which screamed and jumped out of the way , spreading its wings and dropping away , flying into the cold clear space below the balcony , its final call echoing briefly , like laughter . |