Example sentences of "[vb past] their [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't come that day , or the next , and a host of mocking little phrases found their insidious way into her mind . |
| 2 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 3 | But EP , after a slow start , found their winning ways again with Rushmere and the new-ball pairing of young paceman Rudi Bryson , considered unlucky to have missed selection for the World Cup , and West Indian Eldine Baptiste their most successful performers . |
| 4 | After a long gallop to Radstock our two heroes then made their weary way back to Crediton where they made their final assault . |
| 5 | Almost immediately referee , Paul Taylor blew his whistle , the poor Portsmouth fans made their sad way home to the south coast , the players with heads drooped , left the field and many of the United fans were already leaving the ground in the crowd of five hundred five thousand , two hundred and twenty six when Andy Melville scored that vital goal which gave United three very important League points . |
| 6 | But these Jews , led by the weeping baby , made their solemn way past a series of curtains and blankets suspended from the ceiling and , one by one , backed their way through a missing panel in the wall . |
| 7 | In comers landed clumsily and made their tricky way nest ward ; outgoers waddled to the edge of the rock and plunged sea wards . |
| 8 | They made their stooping way up and down the rows of tomato plants . |
| 9 | She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time . |
| 10 | The passengers made their own way after being taken back to New Street station . |
| 11 | In many ways , as the technology and its altering social relations became more general , new forms and new areas of experience made their own way into print . |
| 12 | Conservative interests sought their own way of picturing the order of Nature , preferring images that admitted change only within the framework of a divinely preordained plan of creation . |
| 13 | For years Diana suffered their uncaring ways in silence , making herself ill in the process . |
| 14 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 15 | Charles flew down from Aberdeen , Diana arrived from Highgrove ; but instead of going home together , at least for the night , they went their separate ways . |
| 16 | They went their separate ways : the young politician to the floor of the House to promote new industrial and commercial legislation which would , no doubt , exercise his legal mind , and the industrial manager to the central lobby , and the way out . |
| 17 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 18 | As they went their separate ways , critics gave Martin , who had been the straight man of the team , little chance of finding the kind of success they predicted for Lewis . |
| 19 | Asked where he 's been since he and Stephen Luscombe went their separate ways , the man who once lived on the ceiling claims : ‘ Apart from trying to find the best dog in the world , I 've worked on film scores , including one for an animated film , several pieces for Channel 4 documentaries as well as the incidental music for a Radio 4 play . |
| 20 | The three sons of Trazior went their separate ways to their cells , each thinking their separate thoughts . |
| 21 | In December , you hear people say , the Community was talking loftily about putting together a common European foreign and security policy ; but when the war started in January , they all went their separate ways . |
| 22 | But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways . |
| 23 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 24 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 25 | The royal couple then went their separate ways the prince to a business seminar and the princess to a department store promotion of British goods . |
| 26 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 27 | Brownie and Lola were young and defiant at a time when those who went their own way were considered to be delinquent . |
| 28 | The boys went their own way . |
| 29 | While Nestorians went their own way , the orthodox were again split over the manner in which divine and human natures were united in the person of Christ . |
| 30 | Others went their own way , delving farther into the secrets that had been revealed to them , living in the deep woods of the high crags , visited by petitioners who sought aid . |