Example sentences of "[vb past] the way to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way , two of the RAF 's great leaders , the one who saved this country from invasion in 1940 and the other who paved the way to victory in 1945 will be rightly commemorated . |
| 2 | The young child familiar with the nursery rhyme : The Man in the Moon Came down too soon And asked the way to Norwich sees a jovial face . |
| 3 | Eleanor Pitman led the way to expansion in KENT , qualifying as a teacher at the first exam in 1955 , followed closely by Nellie Button and Cicely Harris . |
| 4 | Pushing a renegade curl from his forehead , he divested the boot of our luggage and led the way to reception , where we said goodbye to Sandy , the lady driver . |
| 5 | Tavalouze led the way to Mandru 's morning salon . |
| 6 | For the organizers of the Leeds convention , the Russian revolution opened the way to peace without victory . |
| 7 | The second road , built mainly for tourist traffic , opened the way to Annat , Torridon and Kinlochewe . |
| 8 | Edwards 's trailblazing feat opened the way to others : by the time he 'd strapped his board on the roof-rack of his car , he claimed , three other men were already out . |
| 9 | Of course this sally , and the discovery of our locational ancestry opened the way to friendship , though we soon realised that we had much more in common , not least a sharp sense of humour , which we were both going to need . |
| 10 | Thus the naval bombardment , which had , in fact , opened the way to Constantinople were the attack pressed home , served only to alert the Turks and their German ally to their peril in this area . |
| 11 | Stopping the car to examine it , she was surprised to learn that it indicated the way to Wilder 's Wilderness , which offered the New Zealand experiences of horse trekking , tramping , native bush walks , camping and white-water rafting . |
| 12 | He asked the first policeman he saw the way to London University and was pointed in the direction of the Strand . |
| 13 | Villa , though , knew the way to goal . |
| 14 | Phalanxes of East German border guards barred the way to Westerners trying to use the crossing-points in the Berlin Wall as East Germany 's Communist leaders began celebrating their 40-year rule over an increasingly restive population . |
| 15 | To the men of the Second Army he declared in a vibrant Order of the Day : ‘ You will be those of whom it will be said — ‘ they barred the way to Verdun ! ’ ’ |
| 16 | Willi Herget , a Luftwaffe nightfighter ace with 74 confirmed kills , told me that halfway along this track it was easy to guess at the target , because a line of burning British bombers pointed the way to Nuremburg . |
| 17 | In the cities , the relative moderation of groups of workers such as the printers pointed the way to co-operation between the working class and progressive sections of ‘ society ’ in pressing for liberal reforms . |
| 18 | I left the road halfway between the Cotterdale Road end and Hardraw and walked with Bill the dog and Eddie the landlord from the Sun in Dent along to the signpost that pointed the way to Cotter Force . |