Example sentences of "way [adv prt] from the [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The store manager has worked his way up from the bottom and is now concerned with the financial side of operations . |
| 2 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 3 | ‘ I happened to see it on my way back from the nursing-home and I thought it would go particularly well with the dress . ’ |
| 4 | Otherwise- so quick had been the retreat through the Residency , the men fighting their way back from the hospital and across the yard would find themselves outflanked and unable to reach the connecting trench . |
| 5 | TONIGHT FREE expression blasts its way out from the gloom and squalor in the shadowy shape of God from South London and Pain Teens from Houston , Texas . |