Example sentences of "way [adv prt] through the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clods of earth were tearing their way up through the humped grass . |
| 2 | Weeds and other flowers had forced their way up through the cracked paving of the floors . |
| 3 | Mr Yeltsin is a successful career communist who fought his way up through the construction-industry bureaucracy to become first secretary of Sverdlovsk , his home town and one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | The rat could only go one way , burrowing its way out through the living flesh . ’ |
| 5 | As it turns out , our long way round through the deaf community , its history , sign language , memory and interpreting has given us an understanding of the concept of Total Communication and of how it might fit into the world of deaf people . |