Example sentences of "our way [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we enter the Age of The Goat and the Treefrog , Turhan Bey will guide our way towards the ultimate transcendence . ’ |
| 2 | We were down to Halflight , sliding through the tangle of the Lagoon Nebula interlink , making our way towards the secondary GalacNet lines that would get us to the sector containing the Ixyphal system . |
| 3 | The man shambled off into the house , and the rest of us picked our way across the front garden . |
| 4 | We made our way across the first four barges . |
| 5 | We picked our way across the broken mountain heights . |
| 6 | Towards the end of that summer we had worked our way up the Irish Sea visiting most of the west coasts ports including Fishguard , Holyhead , Liverpool , Heysham , Workington , and a host of smaller estuaries such as the Dee , Menai Straits , and the very tidal Preston river . |
| 7 | After twisting our way up the long trail we finally reached the North Rim just after midday , feeling like redeemed souls struggling out of a magnificent inferno . |
| 8 | Richard Chambers , a fine caver who had helped me photograph the Yordas Cave main chamber , Jeff Clegg and Matt Kirby of the Earby Mines Research Group and myself left the road near Gunnerside Lodge and clanked our way up the old miners ' path along the west side of Gunnerside Gill one damp late September evening . |
| 9 | We slowly sweated our way up the steep mountainside on wet , slippery grass which gave way to wetter , slippier rocks looming vertically out of the swirling mist . |
| 10 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 11 | We had cycled on the road from Bodø to Fauske and on the Sulitjelma ; pushed the bikes over to Sorjusjaure ; ridden and swum our way to Staloluokta within the Padjelanta National Park ; and then thrashed our way on the faster tracks through Arasluokuoktastugorna , Låddejåkkåstugana and Kisurisstugan to Akkastugorna and a ferry to Ritjemokk , before cycling by road to Vietas ; and gone by plane to Sitastugan at the north-west end of Sitasjaure . |
| 12 | But later , as we picked our way along the narrow mountain spine down towards Aberfan , I found the Discovery more reassuring again — its flexibility , its smoothness , its stability , all signs of its good breeding . |
| 13 | Mercifully darkness obscured the dripping , gale-lashed countryside as we bumped our way down the unsurfaced track which led from the main road to Number Five , our new home . |
| 14 | So let's start with the first mouthful and work our way down the whole digestive tract , to explain fully the marvellous benefits of this new slimming method . |
| 15 | But really it was the buzzards and the kestrels circling overhead that caught my eye as we made our way down the coastal path . |
| 16 | Hugging the bank we laboriously rowed and poled our way past the endless stone quays of riverside hotels and the flanks of cruise ships . |
| 17 | We would make our way past The Three Crowns Inn where people sat on forms by wooden tables to enjoy a summer 's evening drink . |
| 18 | Hebrews 2 contains a fascinating idea that Jesus had to be made human in order to overcome death for us ; that is to say , he pioneered our way through the deep waters of death . |
| 19 | He blew his nose and gave his behind a scratch as we picked our way through the lush undergrowth . |
| 20 | These have included meals out ( we are working our way through the international cuisine ) , theatre visits ( in both Leeds and Bradford ) , sporting events ( dry slope skiing last month ) , talks ( something we would like to develop more ) , and walks ( both long and short ) . |
| 21 | we might work our way through the local attractions |
| 22 | We climbed down the notched-pole ladder and picked our way through the muddy ground towards the back path , passing the neatly stacked woodpile and the growing heap of freshly gathered pine-needles . |
| 23 | We wound our way through the cobbled streets of Leicester past the great , four-storeyed houses of the merchants , jutting out above us , and into the Newarks . |
| 24 | We forced our way through the bustling market which was packed from one end to the other with stalls , carts , horses and people of every station ; the poor in their rags , the rich in their costly silks . |
| 25 | Boldly we made our way through the incredible promiscuity of the streets : men with shoes made out of silver-birch bark , women wearing sacks and carpets , children in their dusty birthday suits . |
| 26 | As we have stood enraptured on the mountain peaks , threaded our way through the bosky dells and trod for many a mile the vast moorlands , we have often felt it to be indeed a land of glory and beauty . ’ |
| 27 | Never once did we stop even in Templecombe village but made our way through the sleepy hamlet , the houses on either side all boarded up , the only sign of life being columns of smoke and the occasional villager foraging on the outskirts for fire-wood . |
| 28 | As he declaimed we were weaving our way through the late-afternoon shoppers who thronged the centre of the town . |
| 29 | As we tunnelled our way through the steep rhododendron-canopied paths at Aros , Alistair said the rain , the humidity and the terrain reminded him of his ‘ spell in Assam during the War . |
| 30 | We 'll work our way through the whole fuckin' audience , shaft every man-jack of them ’ . |