Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 31 | Remember the cardinal rule in this situation is to push both sticks forward , but do be ready to leap out of the way if necessary ! |
| 32 | In his haste to leap out of the way Vincent dropped and broke his paintbox . |
| 33 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 34 | Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows . |
| 35 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 36 | Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove . |
| 37 | But I 'm starting to get used to it , it 's fascinating to find out about the way an artist works — and it 's a darn sight better than putting up with a patient who 's frustrated because she is n't getting anything done ! ’ |
| 38 | If not the chances are that you need to find out about the way directories and path names work . |
| 39 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 40 | When it moves any models in its path are run over , sustaining a strength 7 hit unless they can jump out of the way . |
| 41 | Now , I admit that it ca n't be , it ca n't have come about in the way that Freud says . |
| 42 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 43 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 44 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 45 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 46 | Any book about Scottish football inevitably brings the reader into direct contact with the major Glasgow clubs , Rangers and Celtic , and such is the passion they arouse , that a degree of false diplomacy has grown up around the way the clubs and their players are treated . |
| 47 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 48 | You can not expect to be asked the questions exactly as they appear here and you will be badly thrown if you have programmed yourself with exact responses to very particular questions which do not crop up in the way you had anticipated . |
| 49 | But a more novel objection came from Dr Leonard Wilson , when Bishop of Birmingham , and who opened a school without wearing gaiters as a form of protest because he believed : ‘ Bishops should not dress up in the way of the decadent eighteenth century . ’ |
| 50 | Lots of people are fed up with the way their lives are headed but they do n't often take the trouble to do anything about it . |
| 51 | I 'm sure you 've heard it thousands of times before but I am fed up with the way I look . |
| 52 | So I I think it started on an informal basis , you know everyone was just a little bit fed up with the way they 're being treated and the way you know been told how much we could earn , how we could earn it , when when we could earn it and all this sort of palaver . |
| 53 | ‘ No , I have n't , ’ said Sally , ‘ and Ed was also fed up by the way the deal was done . |
| 54 | Fortunately he managed to duck out of the way of a lump of glass as it speared towards his neck . |
| 55 | A lot of erm them , cos erm we 're up , we 're in the upper sort of thing , we 're in the upstairs in a form room , so when we walk downstairs to erm down to a lesson they come barging up there and pushing out of the way ! |
| 56 | Unfortunately the Act has not turned out in the way that its progenitors hoped . |
| 57 | She stumbled backwards and I darted out of the way as she fell over . |
| 58 | However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time . |
| 59 | Lisabeth and Fenella were being moved out of the way and generally harried from pillar to post . |
| 60 | I think most of the plots have been written , and it a genre that has been written out in the way that the Western was written out . |