Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] their [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He did n't come that day , or the next , and a host of mocking little phrases found their insidious way into her mind . |
| 3 | It also means that it is extremely important to get the matching stage right because no amount of back-seat driving will persuade new parents to change their basic way of running their family . |
| 4 | for my metals to go their separate ways … |
| 5 | I think also that aspersions were cast , as asides , on the true soldierly qualities of Sgt York , and hence on all American soldiers , and a three-way fight broke out among the French-Canadian , American and British , to a background drone of German bombers wending their weary way to or from London , or circling in a desultory fashion prior to dumping their bombs with a dull thud on the surrounding countryside . |
| 6 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 7 | In the case of bacteria , the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways . |