Example sentences of "way [adv prt] [prep] [noun prp] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They worked their way down over Jean-Paul 's flesh , expertly kneading the muscles , smoothing the lax skin , seeking the most sensitive folds and crevices . |
| 2 | This is the Hotel Rodeo at Garoteo where we stayed , where we Rosetto where we stayed on our way down towards Tony 's . |
| 3 | Even as he closed the door behind him , the thallium was on its way down through Donald 's oesophagus , slithering towards his stomach and digestive tract , where his body chemicals would turn it into a disease Donald would have difficulty in recognizing . |
| 4 | He waited for me to get out of his sight , and then he worked his way down to Cuttle 's Bakery . |
| 5 | Mark Stein then saw a tantalising cross shave the visitors ' cross bar , but there was no way through for Stoke 's bulldozing tactics . |
| 6 | Leading the way up to Terry 's room , fervently wishing she 'd left this madhouse when she 'd had the chance , Ellie stood back for Terry to enter first . |
| 7 | The island presented such a complex profile to the early European navigators that they assumed her to be separate islands — and her pluralized name remained all the way up to Indonesia 's independence when an orgy of name-changing occurred and Celebes was renamed Sulawesi , and her capital , Makassar , became Ujung Pandang . |
| 8 | Just outside the city centre , on the way up to Reid 's Hotel , turn right up Rua do Dr Pita just after the bridge . |
| 9 | When that evening she made her way up to Helen 's flat , she found that Edward was there . |
| 10 | She was a snob ; Mary Rose knew her mother wanted a lawyer or a doctor , but there was no one she liked as well as the sharp young Irishman who was working his way up in Heraghty 's business . |
| 11 | Only a trickle of progress reports have so far found their way back to Buckinghamshire 's education department , but they confirm the trend nationally of a poor overall response and turnout confined principally to a hardcore of parents , generally stalwarts of a school parent-teacher association . |
| 12 | Marco 's hands found their way back to Tabitha 's hips . |
| 13 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 14 | I picked up Eddie just as it started to rain again , and we chatted all the way back to Simon 's office while she dressed herself in street clothes from a Sainsbury 's shopping-bag . |
| 15 | They did not talk much in the litter on the way back to Taheb 's house . |
| 16 | I remember picking up the film and making my way back to Derek 's , although even now the memory 's a little hazy , and then I started to feel light-headed and dizzy . |
| 17 | The immediate answer is the hides as such , almost entirely come from the British Royal Hides which are tanned in this country and then er , find their way back to Walsall er for the saddlery trade . |
| 18 | On his way back to Coggan 's house , Gabriel met Boldwood . |
| 19 | The young couple were with her less than forty-eight hours , explaining they had promised to spend another thirty-six on the way back with John 's parents , who lived in Cheltenham . |
| 20 | Mr Souness , who arrived at a Manchester hospital offering the comment : ‘ I ca n't say I 'm looking forward to it but it is essential so it has to be done , ’ broke the news to his players on the way back from Sunday 's semi-final which Liverpool rescued late in extra time through Ronnie Whelan . |
| 21 | O o on the way back from Andrew 's , yeah . |
| 22 | One could let one 's imagination off the leash up there — dream that the Mallard was still blasting its way out of King 's Cross , past the back gardens , up the old LNER iron road which , from the Palace walls , looked like a model railway track . |
| 23 | Yet even if there were short-term cause to rejoice , the mandarins would be wrong to assume that the most effective way out of Japan 's current problems — slow growth , asset-price deflation and a troubled financial sector — is to indulge their strongest instinct : to re-regulate everything . |
| 24 | Once the cynics had been silenced and the first customer Griffiths burbled their way out of TVR 's Blackpool factory , the rest of the sports car world stopped and stared . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't think you 've talked your way out of Sybil 's ministrations , ’ Ralf warned fitzAlan , stretching his legs out before him . |
| 26 | All the way out to Keller 's house they kept up a ceaseless flow of questions about the Channings and the bruises on my head . |
| 27 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 28 | It was the path from my cottage , and I remembered the little cove called Halfway House , a cove where in any weather a boat might tie up safely and its owner make his way round to Taigh na Tuir . |
| 29 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |