Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [pos pn] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were everywhere , slowly inching their way across the desert . |
| 2 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 3 | It was startling to see thousands of people of all ages toiling up and down the hill , like two gigantic snakes ( if that is not somewhat inappropriate ) , squelching over lower , peaty sections and gingerly picking their way up large and often precarious scree . |
| 4 | He 'd schooled himself to ruthlessness , single-mindedly forcing his way through the jungle , hacking at anything in his path . |
| 5 | For the exasperated livestock farmer , with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house , for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby , and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site , the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics . |
| 6 | Task 40 demonstrates that we do not approach difficult discourse in our own language by starting at the bottom levels and then patiently working our way towards the top and a general understanding of what is being said . |
| 7 | The Trees had crossed half of the floor now and the nearest one — Fenella could see now that it had been a Larch , elegant and slender — was already inching its way across the slimy black pool of the Melanisms , creating a kind of bridge . |
| 8 | There was a wind blowing , clearing the sky of cloud wrack , and a pale moon was already inching its way above the brows of the hills . |
| 9 | Sandy was already picking her way through the garden towards the front of the house . |
| 10 | Britain was no longer paying its way in the world . |
| 11 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 13 | Already making her way around the house , she came to the front and asked a footman to carry a message to Rose Alderley . |
| 14 | They were both Londoners so this cheered me up no end , and we were soon making our way to the Mess for supper and then up to the office for me to meet some of the others . |
| 15 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 16 | On an ad hoc basis , the Community is already feeling its way towards such common policies . |
| 17 | Curiously , for a man who wrote so much about spaceships , he detested flying , and went everywhere on cruise liners , usually paying his way by giving popular science lectures to the passengers . |
| 18 | Small but dangerously exciting trickles of pleasure were still winging their way through her virtually defenceless body . |
| 19 | Envisaged as a comprehensive restructuring of educational provision in further education colleges into 40-hour modules , it is rapidly finding its way into the work of the secondary school . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind that I 'm still finding my way around Symphony , I fear that every next step might lock the processor . |
| 21 | Most of the London councils had paid up by then , though some of the large sums promised by the unions were still churning their way through committees . |
| 22 | WHEN skiers are not regaling the world with tales of their exploits on the slopes , they are usually bluffing their way through an evening in the pub with their friends . |
| 23 | Six years and the legal system is still working its way through the small print . |
| 24 | Asmodeus , the Devil 's banker ’ — William was still working his way through the forces of Good and Evil — ‘ who was also the Maker of Bad Marriages … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ As far as I know , he 's still working his way through the list of cabin calls , then he was due to do a routine hygiene inspection . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm still working my way through this little lot . ’ |
| 27 | In the earlier Wind Quintet Schoenberg was still feeling his way towards a 12-note style that was as well-characterized thematically as it was well-balanced in form . |
| 28 | Those without heard the ceiling yield , with a muffled , sickening grinding of brick against brick and stone upon stone , and the dull , filtering trickle of soil busily winding its way between . |
| 29 | He 's probably smoking his way through your deposit . |
| 30 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |