Example sentences of "[verb] our [noun sg] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ash and I levered our way through the press of people while I undid my jacket and struggled to extricate my half-bottle of whisky from a side pocket . |
| 2 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 3 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 4 | This about ends our ramble through the wide world of restaurants , cafes , bistros , brasseries , snack bars and pubs . |
| 5 | We 'll work our way through the whole fuckin' audience , shaft every man-jack of them ’ . |
| 6 | we might work our way through the local attractions |
| 7 | ‘ Why , you 'll start by asking everyone on the Woodfield Estate , and if we still have n't found him , we 'll work our way through the rest of town . |
| 8 | We heard Mandeville calling us and continued our journey up towards Cripplegate , forcing our way through the lawyers and serjeants of the coif who were assembling outside the door of the Priory of St Elsing-Spital for their last mass of the Michaelmas term . |
| 9 | Wh what we do you see , they have to wander around the showground doing this , so we get our traffic through the showground and they see other things while they 're going around . |
| 10 | Charlie and I elbowed our way through the crowd . |
| 11 | As we tunnelled our way through the steep rhododendron-canopied paths at Aros , Alistair said the rain , the humidity and the terrain reminded him of his ‘ spell in Assam during the War . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Our intention is to defuse the situation at present with a view to trying to negotiate our way through the problem and secure an outcome in the months ahead which will satisfy all our fishermen . ’ |
| 13 | Continuing our journey through the centuries we arrive at 1788 and a completely different type of association , linking past and present . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | We thread our way through the cemetery , misquoting |
| 16 | Reuters Between chimes of Jingle Bells , the Holly and the Ivy and other festive tunes , we Brits nibble our way through the equivalent of nearly half a billion 50g packets of nuts from October until the New Year . |
| 17 | We jostled our way through the multitudes until we found a patch of grass to sit down on . |
| 18 | Making our way through the crowds — great busloads of excited if baffled-looking Rajasthani villagers — Dr Jaffery and I passed over the moat and through the outer gate , part of the indecorous additional defences erected outside Shah Jehan 's fort by Aurangzeb . |
| 19 | It ultimately relies on the notion that we order our world through the categorical distinctions of our language . |
| 20 | But the crossing from Newcastle turned out to be a mini holiday in itself and very soon we were nosing our way through the islands and reefs which guard the entrance to Bergen 's Hanseatic harbour . |
| 21 | We forced our way through the bustling market which was packed from one end to the other with stalls , carts , horses and people of every station ; the poor in their rags , the rich in their costly silks . |
| 22 | We wound our way through the cobbled streets of Leicester past the great , four-storeyed houses of the merchants , jutting out above us , and into the Newarks . |
| 23 | While we fight our way through the coils ? |
| 24 | At night we 'd recommend that you follow our lead through the throngs of people crowding the streets to the amazing bars , clubs , pubs and discos . |
| 25 | All the lights in the town were out as we made our way through the almost empty streets . |
| 26 | Slowly we made our way through the heat and the glare and arrived , at list , in the soothing shade of the trees . |
| 27 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 28 | Boldly we made our way through the incredible promiscuity of the streets : men with shoes made out of silver-birch bark , women wearing sacks and carpets , children in their dusty birthday suits . |
| 29 | Never once did we stop even in Templecombe village but made our way through the sleepy hamlet , the houses on either side all boarded up , the only sign of life being columns of smoke and the occasional villager foraging on the outskirts for fire-wood . |
| 30 | Let's make our way through the organization chart of an imaginary college . |