Example sentences of "way [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , attention has concentrated on the ways in which in the course of time they managed to transform their basis of subsistence , increase and concentrate populations and by making possible a finer subdivision of labour promote advances in technology which in turn generated further cycles of progressive change . |
| 2 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 3 | Now she declares unswerving loyalty to diesel : ‘ I 've experienced three petrol cars in the past , but it 's going to be diesel all the way for me in the future . ’ |
| 4 | I thought he 'd find a way for himself in the end . |
| 5 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 6 | Beth held the door open while Cissie manoeuvred her way through it with the wooden tray . |
| 7 | and this , we , we just worked our way through it during the week |
| 8 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |
| 9 | ‘ Very good , ’ he said , moving in that oddly stiff and creaky way of his for the door . |
| 10 | If my wife manages to elbow her way past me to the book first , she 's immediately led astray by extras like ‘ free use of private beach ’ , ‘ heated swimming pool ’ or ‘ wine-tasting ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Bragg nodded towards a lean figure picking his way towards them among the splintered remains of the wooden rollers . |
| 12 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 13 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
| 14 | Boredom , thought Charlotte , as she made her way before him across the small panelled dining-room , is one thing I do n't anticipate . |
| 15 | Even if Lauda had been James 's only opponent , there was no way in which at the beginning of the season James could foresee the possibility of a championship . |
| 16 | No one could but admire the fortitude with which he bore his last painful illness and the way in which at the same time he stuck to his constituency work which he performed with great conscientiousness . |
| 17 | The significant points to note from this passage are firstly the way in which the blood of delivery is unclean ; secondly the way in which in the case of a boy 's birth circumcision intrudes in the text and interrupts both the period of the mother 's pollution and the account of that pollution ; and thirdly , the way in which the woman is finally cleansed of her impurity through the blood of sacrifice as administered by a circumcised male . |
| 18 | It is concealed down a narrow alley linking Hatton Garden with Ely Court but patrons have been finding their way to it since the sixteenth century . |