Example sentences of "his way [adv prt] from the [noun sg] " 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 | Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog 's mercury in the wood , blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch . |
| 3 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 4 | He felt slightly uncomfortable , having seen three men in lounge suits on his way back from the bathroom ; the only clothes he had with him were casual ones . |
| 5 | Richard read of the fire in the newspaper on his way back from the county hospital . |
| 6 | Glover was making his way back from the start , where he had coaxed the temperamental Rambo 's Hall into his stall , and his swelling excitement as he listened to a radio commentary was confined in a swaying Land Rover . |
| 7 | The great Aboriginal winger , Chicka Ferguson , was on the wing with Canberra , and in the last minutes , when Balmain had already sent their two most powerful forwards off , and when Bob Hawke was already on his way down from the VIP box to present the shield to Balmain , Chicka scored a wonderfully impossible weaving and kinking try to tie the game . |