Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 2 | ‘ That guy seems OK , ’ Nathan said , as he and Ari tried to find their way through the labyrinth of Roirbak 's complex to the canteen . |
| 3 | But when I later tried to find my way back to the dining-room to finish my meal , which should have been a simple thing to do , I just could not locate it at all . |
| 4 | When , in time , Mariot announced that she would now seek her couch , and the men rose to stoop their way out of the ingle-neuk , Agnes remained sitting . |
| 5 | Business Direct is made up of a number of different services , each designed to smooth your way throughout the world . |
| 6 | The Yom Kippur War , and the oil crisis put paid to that as western governments tried to buy their way out of recession by borrowing heavily . |
| 7 | He had a big love affair with France and tried to buy his way into political circles . ’ |
| 8 | Owen cursed and tried to wriggle his way round , failed and had to cut across in front of the donkeys laden with bread and water to give to the poor at the tomb . |
| 9 | Her heart sank as she tried to negotiate her way between the truth and a lie . |
| 10 | And as I stoode myself alloone upon the Nuwe Yeare night , I prayed unto the frosty moone , with her pale light — what a dull time we should have if we tried to read our way through The Fall of Princes ? |
| 11 | Endill tried to hack his way through but there were too many plants blocking his way . |
| 12 | So I tried to lie my way out of it . |
| 13 | This time , when people tried to force their way in , the Feldwebel shouted at them abruptly . |
| 14 | Some men at the back of the crowd tried to force their way forward . |
| 15 | Burglars tried to force their way into a house in Northallerton . |
| 16 | Dressed in black and wearing a balaclava , he tried to force his way into the car , but the doors were locked . |
| 17 | Schumacher in a Benetton tried to force his way by but Senna pulled across , their wheels touched and the German spun out of the race . |
| 18 | Schumacher in a Benetton tried to force his way by but Senna pulled across , their wheels touched and the German spun out of the race . |
| 19 | No-one ever told Artemis Deverill that her mother had been killed out hunting that fine October morning , knocked from her horse by the young Stanhope-Murray boy as he tried to thrust his way past her , jumping a hedge and instantly breaking her neck . |
| 20 | But even those who tried to think their way in were obliged to retreat , baffled . |
| 21 | On May 14 a group of up to 300 Army officers and military cadets protesting against the independence declaration tried to push their way into the Supreme Soviet building , and clashed briefly with police and independence supporters before dispersing when Gorbunovs agreed to receive a petition from them . |
| 22 | He was ever so rude , I must say , and he tried to push his way into the flat . ’ |
| 23 | In desperation , some of the men tried to dig their way through to Stourbridge to get coal for heating . |
| 24 | Rincewind groaned and tried to dig his way into the moss with his shoulderblades , then gasped as the pain hit him . |
| 25 | Irreverent humorists chuckled in anticipation of the Reverend Kemp 's unecclesiastical language when the clarion call was sounded and he tried to dig his way out . |
| 26 | Some escaped the massacre and tried to make their way back to their own districts . |
| 27 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 28 | More sepoys poured forward over the bodies of their fellows and a number of the defenders who had lingered too long hammering nails into the vents of the cannons were cut down as they tried to make their way back to the shelter of the buildings ; many more would have perished had not a small rescuing party which included Rayne , Fleury , half a dozen Sikhs and a couple of Eurasian clerks , wielding sabres and bayonets , surged forward in a sudden counter-attack to surround their companions and drag them back . |
| 29 | As they tried to make their way out of a carpark , the attendant was still taking their 20p parking fees . |
| 30 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |