Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 2 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 3 | A few things got torn along the way . |
| 4 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 5 | He also struck him when Sweeney tried to escape on the way to the Bridewell . |
| 6 | The magazines were heavy , and Bobbie stopped to rest on the way home . |
| 7 | She was listening for a new noise , the noise she thought she 'd heard on the way out to Chateaubriand : the irregular tapping of the axis lock crystal , jumping in its housing . |
| 8 | But none of this is the essence of Mrs Thatcher 's problem which is rather that , on the essential questions of economic management , the government gives the impression either of having lost its momentum or of having decided that it must settle for something well short of what Mrs Thatcher seemed to promise in the way of reducing the size of the public sector and also the burden of taxation . |
| 9 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 10 | The weather was better for the flight back along the north coast , and we got views of the 8,000-foot-plus Picos de Europa which we 'd missed on the way down . |
| 11 | From this a spiral staircase led upwards to a similar-sized room with windows on all sides , and Sabine realised she must be in the tower she 'd noticed on the way in . |
| 12 | I got there first , ordered a Scotch , and opened the evening paper that I 'd bought on the way . |
| 13 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 14 | Protected by the noise , which surely signified the most hideously active stoking the world had ever seen , I began to search about , even daring to light a flambeau , which was all this ground floor seemed to warrant in the way of illumination . |
| 15 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 16 | I turned to go out the way I had come . |
| 17 | He began to object to the way the treasure was being shared out , but Bartholomew failed to take him seriously . |
| 18 | From there , they spread across Europe as the Roman empire began to swell Along the way , these early pest-controlling cats started to encounter the wild European cats and to hybridize with them . |
| 19 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 20 | These were the three ‘ Prussian ’ quartets , K.575 in D , K.589 in B flat , and K.590 in F , Mozart 's last , which he certainly began composing on the way home from Berlin , but did not complete until the following year . |
| 21 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 22 | Owen never ceased to marvel at the way in which he combined incredible ingenuity within the rules with total lack of curiosity as to what went on beyond them . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a social habit that started to get in the way . ’ |
| 24 | Given the basic similarity of human sexuality at birth , and the bisexual nature of human beings , Freud sought to account for the way in which men and women are produced in a particular society — namely , middle-class Europe and America in the early twentieth century . |
| 25 | But you , you , you 're an interplanetary artiste — ’ She said this very carefully , it was getting hard to speak properly , her tongue kept getting in the way . |
| 26 | By " special constructions " we mean in particular cumulative lists of adjectives as in ( 12 ) , where , however , the order may be explained by the quite general if ill-defined tendency to leave " heavy " constituents to the latest possible point , as in ( 13 ) : ( 12 ) policies foreign , social and educational ( 13 ) that salesman has just come back who kept getting in the way when you were trying to vaccinate the ewes last week Postnominal associatives may also just possibly be admitted in constructions expressing sharp opposition : ( 14 ) scientists nuclear but not biological The latter type , however , is at best questionable ; and , as a good general rule , we may say that associative adjectives do not normally occur in postnominal position . |
| 27 | But for some reason the thought of dark , obsidian eyes and a powerful , muscular body kept getting in the way . |
| 28 | We went fishing by the way |
| 29 | What Hailey did see in the way of African unrest was a number of scattered local agitations arising from problems connected with land tenure , taxation , conditions of employment , and interference with native custom . |
| 30 | Of course , if the economic environment-in this case the process driving Y t — did change in the way we have assumed , then the two models would cease to be observationally equivalent . |