Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] their way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fake Doc Martens were seized in Hong Kong … and now they 've found their way to the Oxfam Emergency Warehouse in Bicester . |
| 2 | We 're playing the hated enemy Sunderland ( they 've fluked their way to the final ) . |
| 3 | He and his four fellow sixth formers at Barnard Castle School have won their way to the regional final of a music contest in Newcastle . |
| 4 | Not before time , either , as Cud — once unseeded losers around the indie table — have steamed their way into the ranks . |
| 5 | Not before time , either , as Cud — once unseeded losers around the indie table — have steamed their way into the ranks . |
| 6 | I think if anything it 's more likely that what we 'll have at Oxford is some extremely tough women , because these are women who have made their way through the educational system and are tough cookies . |
| 7 | Some , who acquired a taste for the soldier 's life , have made their way to Bosnia to fight another holy war against the Serbs . |
| 8 | For over 400 years , drinkers have made their way to the Majors Arms at Halmonds Frome in Herefordshire for good ale and company . |
| 9 | After nearly 20 years in the lower echelons of the second division and without a major title to their name , the team with the grand sounding name of Real Club Deportivo de la Coruna have elbowed their way past the giant clubs which year after year dominate the Spanish League , and have made a bold bid for the title . |
| 10 | Now these slimey invertibrates have wormed their way into the affections of environmentalists . |
| 11 | Over the years audiences have licked their way through 61,500 gallons of ice-cream during the nail-biting performance . |
| 12 | Where badgers have shouldered their way under sheep-fencing , look for dried earth or polishing on the wire , and for the odd loose guard hair . |
| 13 | Considerably more pertinent to those trying to cope with day-to-day developments , are the various areas of special control which have found their way into the planning framework and jargon . |
| 14 | But as Dr. DAVID FORD of ‘ Aquarian ’ points out , few of the many available fish have found their way into the hobbyist 's tank . |
| 15 | ’ And although the old folk do not sit around the fire any more telling stories as they once did — many of the yarns told by Mr Murray 's own father have found their way into his poetry — there are always the excitements and discoveries of the present by way of compensation . |
| 16 | ‘ By looking at what happens after the long-stay hospitals have closed and at the fate of people who might in the past have found their way into such institutions ’ , MIND argued , their survey ‘ offered a more exacting test of care in the community . ’ |
| 17 | How do you respond to those who deplore the fact that brand promotion and advertising have found their way into a museum which frequently displays industrial products side by side with one-offs ? |
| 18 | More importantly , various examples of spurious insignia have found their way into the work . |
| 19 | With the emphasis on learning as an active process , through engagement with a variety of learning resources and materials , the principles of RBL have found their way into schools wherever projector enquiry-based work , worksheets etc. have been adopted . |
| 20 | Pecan nuts , which were first popular with native Indians , have found their way into Creole cooking as pralines and in countless variations of Pecan pie . |
| 21 | Tasmania , Nepal and elsewhere have found their way into collections scattered throughout Britain . |
| 22 | As , the course tutor , observes , ‘ rock instruments have found their way into common use in more and more schools and music education has now gained sufficient flexibility to allow pupils and students to train on these instruments . |
| 23 | Just as the organisational chart of Average Borough Town Hall shows a growing number of units and horizontal spidery lines , so too we have seen an enormous growth in the number of soft and hard systems that have found their way into the Town Hall , with or without consultation or approval from the local IT department . |
| 24 | What 's startling about 1986 is the manner in which the pop obsessions of self , want , luxury and aggression , have found their way to the surface of hip hop , with all the softer elements not germane to this violent push ruthlessly edited out . |
| 25 | Few Wedding Present records have found their way to the United States and Hallin , obviously backed by RCA , wants to introduce them to this most lucrative market in the world . |
| 26 | This apparent failure to improve housing outcome is mitigated by the fact that a number of this group who were referred to the Homeless Persons Unit , together with others who went to Bed and Breakfast accommodation , would ‘ presumably in due course ’ have found their way to independent accommodation . |
| 27 | It is in these prodigies of imitative art that Godwin discerns one of his social bridges , for he regards the love of art , exhibited even by the most miserable , as ‘ agreeable and cheering … evidence of striving upwards ’ , even though the former ‘ barbaric favourites ’ of the middle classes that have found their way to the firesides of the poor are not art ‘ of a very refined character ’ . |
| 28 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |
| 29 | Since 1919 , great armies of faceless conifers have stamped their way across the highlands and the lowlands , Sitka spruce now covers half a million hectares and makes up 52 per cent of conifers planted by the Forestry Commission in Scotland and Wales . |
| 30 | Gerd regards any intrusion here as evidence that the adventurers are hostile , and he wo n't co-operate any further if he knows they have forced their way in here . |