Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 2 | Because it fits in with the way you see yourself ? |
| 3 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
| 4 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |
| 5 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 6 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 7 | For most Americans , it is simply what they fly over on the way to either coast . |
| 8 | I 'm surprised you did n't fall over on the way here . ’ |
| 9 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 10 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 11 | A year later , she finished up in hospital , sick and disillusioned , rejected by the so-called friends she had picked up along the way . |
| 12 | and my comment was that before getting too sort of wound up about the way we get public |
| 13 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 14 | The safety factor was also important as older people were not so able to jump out of the way of stock or swinging gates . |
| 15 | The physical reactions that stress triggers help us to jump out of the way of a passing bus , or win the egg and spoon race at the village sports day . |
| 16 | To jump out of the way a model must roll equal to or less than its initiative value on a D6 . |
| 17 | Ken , upset , tried to drive his van through the line of Mr Rowse 's patients : he broke the ankle of an elderly man too feeble to jump out of the way . |
| 18 | He said Mills reversed slowly , then more quickly , forcing Miss Deeley to jump out of the way . |
| 19 | The second flashed the first , and they both jerked out of the way . |
| 20 | The drivers had the hardest job , concentrating on holding their positions and keeping out of the way of the front and rear gunners . |
| 21 | After that , since she now spent as much time as possible on deck keeping out of the way of her cousins , with whom she felt a constraint , Ruth saw the woman for several days in a row . |
| 22 | Probably Dizzy 's gang , keeping out of the way in case the sight of others working made them feel weak . |
| 23 | Gilbert somewhere behind , keeping out of the way , trembling with fear . |
| 24 | The demand may be advertised in one or more newspapers if the demand is for payment of a sum due under a judgment or order and the creditor knows or believes that the debtor has absconded or is keeping out of the way with a view to avoiding service and there is no real prospect of the debt being recovered by any enforcement action . |
| 25 | If the court is satisfied ( by affidavit or other evidence ) that prompt personal service can not be effected because the debtor is keeping out of the way so as to avoid service , it may order substituted service in such manner as it thinks fit . |
| 26 | So by keeping out of the way and staying at sea he hoped to put himself right . |
| 27 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 28 | As the cockpit is likely to be used a lot while sailing in the trades and while in harbour , it seems a pity that the tiller should take up such a large amount of space , although when at rest it can be lifted out of the way . |
| 29 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |
| 30 | Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way . |