Example sentences of "it [adj] the way [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah , yet he cuts the wood for Isaac 's funeral pyre before he sets off , and takes it all the way with him . |
2 | So we , on the small scale , for just bits and pieces , got m several jobs and one of them was moving stuff from the biology labs and the physics labs from Archbishop 's to take it all the way across town to go to Queen Anne 's school . |
3 | Under the proposals from Brussels the M4 would be upgraded for maximum heavy goods use , extending it all the way along the Pembrokeshire Coast to Fishguard . |
4 | Is it all the way along Deeside then ? |
5 | I 'll take it all the way to the Senate if I have to . ’ |
6 | Let's see if you can make it all the way to the front door before Rosie gets you . |
7 | Penny and her Second , Sylvia , talked about it all the way to the corner where Sylvia turned off for home , and Penny only remembered her lost budgie again when Sylvia said goodbye and added : ‘ I do hope you find Kelpie soon , Penny . ’ |
8 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
9 | Yes , ma'am , sent it all the way to Frankfurt by mistake … ’ |
10 | She carried it through the back-door and ran with it all the way to Fred 's house . |
11 | No , I 've always admired them for doing it their own way and getting away with it all the way to the end . |
12 | If she does make a noise you probably wo n't shoot her , and anyway there 's a chance she could n't make enough of a noise to be heard outside the front door ; it 's a big house and although there are a lot of hard , sound-reflective surfaces in it , you 're not convinced a scream would make it all the way to whoever 's outside , either down the stairwell or through the double-glazed balcony windows . |
13 | He leaned into it and the fielder at midwicket could only turn and jog after it all the way to the boundary . |
14 | They breakfasted , then picked up the autobahn at Leipzig and followed it all the way to Dresden . |
15 | As more letters take its place , you must enter them correctly until the person makes it all the way to the end of the belt and thus to safety . |
16 | It must have been awkward getting it all the way to Hochhauser from London . |
17 | Not happy with simply maintaining and flying powerful jet aircraft , they 've built a tiny propellor-driven plane from a kit , Now they plan to fly it all the way to Gibraltar . |
18 | Time will be standing still in Kington on sunday … the streets should be empty … they 'll all be at Lords to cheer their cricket team on the village eleven have made it all the way to the final after 25 years of trying … |
19 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
20 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
21 | This is a thrilling construction , and if you fancy an interesting low-level walk you can follow it all the way from the Aonach Mor ski-area car park , through the Leanachan forest to the start point for The Grey Corries . |
22 | You see , Tom sent it all the way from America , so I thought — ‘ |
23 | In different questions either the mathematical terms were used or phrases such as " How many squares could you fit into the shape ? " and " How far is it all the way round the edge of the shape ? " |
24 | How long is it all the way round something ? |
25 | I 've wore it all the way round the Co-op superstore last night . |
26 | How far is it all the way round the circle ? |