Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 3 | The second flashed the first , and they both jerked out of the way . |
| 4 | Stumbling slightly , she moved out of the way , propping herself up against one of the big windows . |
| 5 | Kāli and Jit moved out of the way of the back staircase and the sheep flooded down past them . |
| 6 | Reynolds moved out of the way into an alcove . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | She stumbled backwards and I darted out of the way as she fell over . |
| 12 | She skipped out of the way as the broom flicked itself busily in through the door . |
| 13 | 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 ! ? |
| 14 | Thirty seconds later , he had the whole U-rod assembly unbolted from the car and stepped back out the way he 'd come in . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He dived headlong as he reached the top , but Burun stepped out of the way , caught his son 's sash at the back as he passed , swung him round and threw him into the wreckage of the bed again . |
| 17 | Rachel stepped out of the way as the engimatically beautiful Miss Mei-Ling walked into the office and closed the door behind her . |
| 18 | The whole hall is convulsed to see children elbowed out of the way while the adults take over skipping ropes and doubledutch , 1920s style , fills the screen . |
| 19 | Listening to the OAE in Mozart is like hearing the nineteenth century shovelled out of the way . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Imagine me in one of those , ’ she said , and laughter bubbled out in the way that normally set the whole bus tour laughing with her . |
| 21 | Then the handful of riders wheeled their mounts in wild haste , and rode back by the way they had come , and after them in headlong pursuit streamed Reginald de Grey and his knights and men-at-arms . |
| 22 | I got out of the way , on my own . |
| 23 | We got out of the way damn fast . |
| 24 | A doctrine such as the Christian belief in God as Trinity arose out of the way in which Christians experienced God as personal and in three quite distinct ways and yet as one . |
| 25 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 26 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 27 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 28 | He scuttled out of the way as Emmie lunged at him and ran into his own room , banging the door . |
| 29 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 30 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |