Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beetles led the way to where they had done their measurements . |
| 2 | The concessions paved the way for the ‘ fusion ’ of all three western zones into a single unit and the foundation of a West German regime . |
| 3 | The polytechnics led the way when for a period they had the advantage of the professionalism of graphic designers within their institutions , sometimes even within their libraries . |
| 4 | SICK pop idol Michael Jackson was on the road to recovery yesterday as furious fans slammed the way his Wembley concert was cancelled . |
| 5 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 6 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 7 | Phalanxes of East German border guards barred the way to Westerners trying to use the crossing-points in the Berlin Wall as East Germany 's Communist leaders began celebrating their 40-year rule over an increasingly restive population . |
| 8 | It is remarkable , however , that his fixed-wing propeller-driven models showed the way ahead so clearly at a time when most other proposals for aerial machines involved flapping wings or unlikely applications of the helicopter principle . |
| 9 | A herald went before them , a silver trumpet to his lips , whilst two serjeants-at-arms cleared the way with sharp knocks from their staffs . |
| 10 | The release of the two Germans opened the way for the unfreezing of European Community ( EC ) aid to Lebanon which had been withheld at the insistence of the German government . |
| 11 | These ideas transformed the way the Finishing Room operates . |
| 12 | Scrambling for growth , America 's airlines changed the way all airlines operate . |
| 13 | The changes paved the way for the privatization of the state oil company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Sociedad del Estado ( YPF ) . |
| 14 | The six women horse-riders led the way , single-file , and we muleteers followed , to meet some four hours later for lunch at our first watering-hole , the hilltop village of Torvizcon . |
| 15 | Recently , a number of firms changed the way they charge . |
| 16 | Once your program has STOPped you can investigate the values of the variables to find out why things happened the way they did . |
| 17 | Turning to the African population , he said in Pravda : ‘ Botha 's reforms opened the way to gradual transformation of purely racial into social barriers . |
| 18 | ‘ I paid no heed at the time , but when things broke the way they did , I thought about it again . |
| 19 | Willi Herget , a Luftwaffe nightfighter ace with 74 confirmed kills , told me that halfway along this track it was easy to guess at the target , because a line of burning British bombers pointed the way to Nuremburg . |
| 20 | Such allegations paved the way for justification of the German occupation of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 — justification made all the more credible by the appearance , at almost exactly the same time as the German navy , of British warships in Norwegian waters and of British troop landings at Narvik and Trondheim . |
| 21 | Freud is often referred to as the grandfather of psychoanalysis , and his research and theories changed the way we think about ourselves . |
| 22 | The approved amendments opened the way for the full co-operation of Argentina , Brazil and Chile within the terms of the treaty . |
| 23 | Besides meeting a potentially huge demand for cheap , fast colouring , the chemistry of dyestuffs opened the way to innumerable new synthetics . |
| 24 | In the cities , the relative moderation of groups of workers such as the printers pointed the way to co-operation between the working class and progressive sections of ‘ society ’ in pressing for liberal reforms . |
| 25 | Then some girls showed the way with this style . |
| 26 | Lee Sharpe 's fourth goal in three games opened the way after seven minutes , Cantona rapped in a 45th minute penalty and Steve Bruce wrapped it up with an 88th minute header . |
| 27 | Naval surveying ships pioneered the way , taking soundings along the proposed routes and sampling the seabed : these activities led to a surge of interest in the scientific exploration of the sea . |
| 28 | Of course these superior critics disliked the way his films displayed ‘ the grossest sentimentality ’ , but this was the price that had to be paid for his mass popularity and after all , as William Hunter reminded his readers , Dickens had been far more sentimental for very much the same reasons . |
| 29 | Hennes led the way and Marks & Spencer followed with Linda Evangelista starring in their recent campaign . |
| 30 | " I think the publishers liked the way I approached garden design , " she says . |