Example sentences of "way [adv prt] from the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might have been asking her about the traffic on the way in from the airport . |
| 2 | On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use . |
| 3 | the top one you just tack round not a little way in from the edge |
| 4 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 5 | The great Aboriginal winger , Chicka Ferguson , was on the wing with Canberra , and in the last minutes , when Balmain had already sent their two most powerful forwards off , and when Bob Hawke was already on his way down from the VIP box to present the shield to Balmain , Chicka scored a wonderfully impossible weaving and kinking try to tie the game . |
| 6 | The village of Roncevaux is a short way beyond and a little way down from the col ; it consists mainly of the very military-looking monastery and attendant Gothic church created there in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries for the service of pilgrims . |
| 7 | The lakes huddled in the valleys — Lakes Grey , Nordensköld and Pehoé — were speckled with small icebergs , and at the end of Lake Grey we spied the white winding-sheet of a glacier edging its way down from the ice-cap . |
| 8 | On the way down from the summit of Broad Peak they passed Greg Child and the ailing Pete Thexton , who was to die in a lower camp that night from pulmonary oedema . |
| 9 | Drill small smart holes and insert screw-eyes about a third of the way down from the picture top . |
| 10 | He pointed to the second shelf , a third of the way along from the left . |
| 11 | The side of the dusty street facing the sea was lined with houses all the way along from the pier , but it was difficult to know exactly why many of them were there . |
| 12 | A bad weather front feeling its way over from the west like a nasty white octopus in the blue summer sky . |
| 13 | The store manager has worked his way up from the bottom and is now concerned with the financial side of operations . |
| 14 | None are so ruthlessly exclusive as those who have worked their way up from the ranks . |
| 15 | But of course he was right about the trouser bit because Nan had a gay disposition and a very pretty face ; what he would n't admit to was that she brought in a lot of custom at the week-end , especially when there was a boat in and some of the sailors would make their way up from the quayside and spend freely on chocolate or toffee for their girls . |
| 16 | And we were reminded of this last week when , in making our way up from the quay , we passed this sweet shop and there were the sugar mice in the window , and the cat , and that 's why we went in and bought some . |
| 17 | Jack ‘ Kid ’ Berg , who grew up in the East End ghetto , fought his way up from the streets to a world welterweight title in the tradition of oppressed racial minorities . |
| 18 | Partisan Street , the first street on the way up from the boats , was , as has been said , considered a rough place — a row of decrepit two-up , two-down brick houses , the refuge of crippled and deformed humanity . |
| 19 | Having become interested in aviation as a teenager , he worked his way up from the workshop floor and designed his first glider in 1924 while still only eighteen , following this with his first powered aircraft , the VVA–3 , two years later . |
| 20 | Blackberry was about to reply when another rabbit came noisily through the thick dog 's mercury in the wood , blundered down into the brambles and pushed his way up from the ditch . |
| 21 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 22 | Two of the firm 's directors , the general manager and many managers of the company are women who have worked their way up from the sales force . |
| 23 | He felt slightly uncomfortable , having seen three men in lounge suits on his way back from the bathroom ; the only clothes he had with him were casual ones . |
| 24 | It was only eight o'clock ; obviously I 'd conked out some time before everybody else , and they were still asleep ( I had heard appropriate log-sawing-like noises coming from Hamish and Tone 's room on my way back from the bathroom ) . |
| 25 | On the way back from the bathroom , Melissa stopped in front of a cabinet laden with framed photographs . |
| 26 | Within they are generally planned on a narrow rectangular site , extending a long way back from the road . |
| 27 | By the time that Baldwin again met the TUC representatives , at 9 p.m. , he was , by the will of the Cabinet , a long way back from the position of the previous night , and embarrassed by the movement . |
| 28 | BRITAIN 'S second biggest housebuilder George Wimpey yesterday threw its weight behind hopes that the UK housing market is on its way back from the slump . |
| 29 | BRITAIN 'S second biggest housebuilder George Wimpey today threw its weight behind hopes that the UK housing market is on its way back from the slump . |
| 30 | Charlie always came that way back from the pub . ’ |