Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] their [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | In comers landed clumsily and made their tricky way nest ward ; outgoers waddled to the edge of the rock and plunged sea wards . |
| 2 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 3 | She takes it up , the partners disengage and go their separate ways . |
| 4 | The principle behind the act is that marriage should be regarded as a partnership which is dissolved on divorce allowing both parties to have a ‘ clean break ’ and go their separate ways . |
| 5 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 6 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 7 | What little is known of his early life is cloaked in melodrama and make-believe , but it appears that his family , once prosperous but fallen on hard times in Lear 's early years , sold up and went their separate ways . |
| 8 | The Gordon Highlanders had already left , the airmen from the corner table had hoisted kitbags to shoulders and gone their separate ways , and the soldier who had spent the entire evening writing letters called a goodnight and walked out into the darkness . |