Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] the way " in BNC.

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1 In particular the teaching force will not be regenerated or remotivated in the ways that are necessary ( and possible ) , and which alone will lead to the real and sustained improvements in the quality of the service delivered to pupils .
2 It seems clear to us that all of the above criteria will be enhanced or negated by the way in which the change agent or the action system reacts to participation : what stereotypes do they have of client representatives ? do they believe in participation ? what expectations do they have of participation and client representatives ?
3 The caterers arrived too early and got in the way of the woman who was doing the flowers .
4 Drained by his ranting and lulled by the way he could float in the starsuit , just touching the padded interior , he drifted into and out of sleep like a man wandering through the rooms of an empty house .
5 And stopped on the way of course in .
6 Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am .
7 He smiled and frowned in the way she loved .
8 Poking his head out from the cab , to get a little cooling draught , he noticed that they were about to enter a long deep cutting and marvelled at the way the cutting must have been cut through almost solid rock .
9 Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down .
10 School came and went in the way that a school day usually lasts .
11 Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment .
12 Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink .
13 Little children whose faces had opened like flowers in the nurturing glow of their first year became withdrawn and cried on the way to school .
14 Oh , the neighbour rang me up and said by the way she 'll be a bit late
15 Many have tried , but perished on the way .
16 Others were pro-reform but disapproved of the way the reforms were currently being implemented .
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