Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time . |
| 2 | Unlike the Victoria Press , the Caledonian produced little in the way of books . |
| 3 | Not that I cared much for the way he kept them . |
| 4 | The Act did tend to homogeneity , to the exploitation of meritocratic notions in pursuit of pragmatic ends , but it created little in the way of innovation or social levelling . |
| 5 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 6 | Abie peered fixedly at the way ahead . |
| 7 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 8 | The second flashed the first , and they both jerked out of the way . |
| 9 | Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows . |
| 10 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 11 | Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove . |
| 12 | Felipe stood in front of her like a lion-tamer , a whip in his hand with the thong coiled out of the way , and for a second Maggie felt a wave of fear . |
| 13 | He had driven home slowly and stopped twice on the way at the Hollybush at Newark and at the Merrie England . |
| 14 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 15 | In the late eighteenth century treatises against masturbation referred specifically to the way in which it undermined a man 's ability to work . |
| 16 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 17 | As a result , the country received little in the way of bilateral aid from these countries and various forms of trade sanction were imposed . |
| 18 | This selection covers everything from John Cale , Todd Rundgren and Roddy Frame to echoes of Brecht/Weill and Richard Rodgers , with a Philip Larkin poem added in along the way , and it works because of the versatility of her gentle but dramatic singing , and the elegant but sparse settings by the producer and pianist , Mimi Izumi Koyabashi . |
| 19 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 20 | Herzen believed that the reputation of the courts suffered more from the way in which they transacted their business than from the verdicts at which they arrived . |
| 21 | She stumbled backwards and I darted out of the way as she fell over . |
| 22 | It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange . |
| 23 | Although Franco seemed well on the way to having Hedilla in his pocket in late October , Falangist support for merging with the Traditionalists was not yet guaranteed . |
| 24 | However , these did not make much difference as the largest families tended to be the poorest families who paid little in the way of direct tax . |
| 25 | She skipped out of the way as the broom flicked itself busily in through the door . |
| 26 | Mr Vaz said the report ‘ very clearly states that the Bank of England acted improperly in the way it conducted supervision of BCCI and puts forward very powerful arguments for compensation . ’ |
| 27 | If Cipriani achieved little in the way of goals , he did , as C.L.R.James put it in his biography of the man — ‘ expand our conception of West Indian public personalities ’ . |
| 28 | I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ? |
| 29 | Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in . |
| 30 | I do n't think this was the case , though , as many women did conform and those who stuck out in the way of Madeline Vesey Neroni and Mrs. Proudie were few and far between — few dared to be too independent or to try and think for themselves . |