Example sentences of "[pron] way [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below me was Yet and , even if I bluffed my way past him , the monster lurked outside . |
| 2 | I come to the two-metre-high brick wall which surrounds the estate and feel my way along it , stumbling over piles of earth and building debris until I get to the corner . |
| 3 | It was irrelevant to them , and I had to make my way with them from point one . |
| 4 | So little Miss Schlegel will have to languish alone , ripening slowly in the California sunshine until one day I will turn up and have my way with her , quite possibly shouting , ‘ This one 's for Gloria Steinem ! ’ as I do so . |
| 5 | Elsbeth would understand if I overpowered her and had my way with her . |
| 6 | I would be putting everything I needed into the horse box until about ten o'clock and at about half past ten my horse and it 's tack would be in there as well and I would be on my way with my day to an eleven thirty meet at a pub nearby . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole thing seems unreal now except perhaps the look on the face of the shoemaker 's daughter when I pushed my way into her house . |
| 8 | I 'd tried to safeguard myself by worming my way into her heart and confidences . |
| 9 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 10 | I grab a dress and tear my way into it . |
| 11 | On my way to my London flat , as I walk through a passageway leading from the Strand to Charing Cross underground station , I pass two young men sitting on a sheet on the floor and begging . |
| 12 | As I walk through Mountain Ash on my way to my Saturday surgery , people call out on the street . |
| 13 | If I can get this equity investment , I 'm on my way to my next hotel . |
| 14 | To be sure you are Lucifer himself in the shape of my master or you could not use me thus , and I beg you 'll send me out of my way to my poor parents . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've seen my room and I can make my way to it if you 'll draw me a simple map ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He knows I 'm on my way for him . ’ |
| 17 | This the , this going my way for it |
| 18 | I worked my way through them . |
| 19 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 20 | As I make my way through my lecture tours overseas I am frequently asked who was the best , and I have to evade a proper answer because each group had its Gibsons , but at different times . |
| 21 | I made my way towards them , and found two trails running side by side through the sand . |
| 22 | It looked a reasonable enough distance , so I made my way towards it . |
| 23 | I could think of nothing except going to London and finding my way among its tall buildings studded with lights . |
| 24 | Perhaps I might not have done but for information which has recently come my way concerning your financial circumstances . |
| 25 | ‘ I made a mistake in asking a woman like Arianna to change her ways for me . |
| 26 | At twenty-two , it seemed , Viola was too set in her ways for him . |
| 27 | She has her ways like everybody else . |
| 28 | One by one the teachers made their ways to their homes — modest , mostly celibate , mostly cheerless homes . |
| 29 | He bent his head to her breast again , still nuzzling through the thin cotton , as if finding a perverse pleasure in delaying the moment when his lips would trail their way across her flushed skin . |
| 30 | The square was quite empty by now and he and the little group of men with him made their way across it without difficulty . |