Example sentences of "our [noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started off swimming 20 — 30 lengths and worked our way up to the 100 . |
| 2 | We hid our disgust and made our way up to the main door where the ever-benevolent Doctor Agrippa was waiting for us . |
| 3 | As to the restaurant itself , I recall that we had to shuffle and wriggle our way out between the crowded tables , and that the noise had been a little taxing on the nerves . |
| 4 | I had nothing particular planned , merely an idea that it might be interesting to thrash our way out into the open ocean , though , mindful of the danger of tropical storms , I had no intention of going too far from the safe shelter of a Bahamian hurricane hole . |
| 5 | Well , we 've got somehow to think our way out of the current difficulties . |
| 6 | We were on the starboard tack , fighting into the trades as we clawed our way out from the Bahamian shoals into the deep waters of the Atlantic . |
| 7 | Let us concentrate rather on the last sentence of the paragraph quoted and work our way back through the foregoing non sequiturs . |
| 8 | The only hope was to try and paddle to the bank , then work our way back into the safe waters of the Cherwell by pulling on the branches of the shrubs and trees that overhung the river . |
| 9 | Finally , frozen stiff , we made our way back along the relative safety of the fisherman 's path , with a cursory wave back to the huddled forms . |
| 10 | We slide back from our observation positions and pick our way back to the rear area . |
| 11 | Dave Swindlehurst was Palace 's big , strong goalscorer as we forced our way back to the 1st Division limelight from the obscurity of the 3rd between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 12 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |