Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] way [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their lot was to nuzzle their way across the sea bottom , sucking up mud and refuse through their simple circular mouths , filtering out the edible particles and expelling the rest through the slits on either side of their throats . |
| 2 | Beginning at Sheffield University on January 31 , the tour was to weave its way through nineteen ( mainly university ) dates before finishing triumphantly at Manchester 's ultra-prestigious Free Trade Hall on February 13 . |
| 3 | Already , the swift-moving German vanguard was groping its way into the Bois des Corbeaux ; the only wood near the Mort Homme , where those well-tried infiltration tactics could be used to excellent advantage . |
| 4 | Soon I was groping my way up the tight , black corkscrew , mole-mode . |
| 5 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | They were not , they were not dispensed with , well one could look back in seventy eight and say retrospectively how that process could have been started considerably earlier , er the honourable gentleman knows perfectly well that er as the Maastricht bill was winding its way through here it was n't really practical to run this but indeed the processes were started before the governing legislation was on the statute book and I quite understand why honourable gentlemen opposite wish to make their party points , particularly those particularly those who were not in the house in seventy eight which er does n't I think apply to the honourable gentleman from from Birmingham , when he knows perfectly well that the same kind of machinery is used now was used then and it was used as fairly and as honestly and as completely impartially as the time allowed . |
| 7 | A decrepit old man , supported by a young boy in a huge coolie hat , was tapping his way down the alley , patterned robes trailing in the rainwater . |
| 8 | Peter , now on his second pint of beer and his fourth cigarette , was picking his way with some difficulty through Les Fleurs du Mal . |
| 9 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 10 | A long French liner slipped majestically by with a mixture of European and Asian faces staring curiously from its rails , then the Arid was pushing its way through a swarm of sampans moving downriver on local errands , most of them rowed , to Joseph 's surprise , by women . |
| 11 | I became aware that my mother was pushing her way towards me . |
| 12 | It needed to be , too , for much of the time she was pushing her way through undergrowth and around patches of thicket too dense for them to penetrate . |
| 13 | One more adventurous boy decided to explore the overgrown slope behind the hut and he was pushing his way through the undergrowth when he caught sight of a figure approaching the hut further down the slope ; the boy was close enough to see that the figure was that of a tramp wearing tattered clothing and crowned with a battered trilby hat . |
| 14 | The crowd was still there , but someone in uniform was pushing his way through and starting to harangue the singer . |
| 15 | Before the Burford constable could reply , Detective Eddy was pushing his way through the crowd and Constable Aplin hurried after him . |
| 16 | One minute he was at the table and the next he was threading his way between the dancers , leaving Geoffrey asleep with his cheek resting on a bread roll , bits of tinsel glittering in his hair . |
| 17 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 18 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 19 | Sure enough , a sparkling line of firelight was twitching its way up the hill , the red gleam of flame shifting constantly in the slight breeze , and disappearing now and again as the marchers tracked up or down slopes in the road . |
| 20 | She was allowed to feel she was getting her way to a certain extent , although there were certain limits . ’ |
| 21 | His wife , Elizabeth , has told Mollie that they did not really get the view that it was coming their way until the next week ; but , in fact , it was . |
| 22 | A peaked cap was cutting its way through the crowd towards me and I recognized the Feldwebel . |
| 23 | General Lee had entered Maryland with 50,000 men , but the Brigade that was skirmishing its way towards Harper 's Ferry had left nothing behind but blackened camp-fires and crushed grasses , while the advance line of MacArthur 's Guard moved warily upstream in the late evening in pursuit . |
| 24 | In life , Christopher Jabelman had been an urbane , well-educated man who was drinking his way to oblivion . |
| 25 | I lunched on a cheese roll and a packet of crisps while Bunny — no day is wasted — chatted up the sulking wife or girlfriend of one of the lunch-time Real Ale bores who was drinking his way round the hand-pumps with a group of mates . |
| 26 | Meanwhile Laura Davies , who missed the cut , was winging her way to the Nabisco Dinah Shore . |
| 27 | His resignation was winging its way to Sheppards yesterday afternoon . |
| 28 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 29 | Robert Walker , a soldier in uniform , was fighting his way through the crowd , a bunch of flowers and a marriage licence in his hand , wading against the human tide to the shining spot under the clock where Judy Garland stood , dressed in angelic white that stood out against the drab extras , waiting anxiously . |
| 30 | What I was really counting on was finding my way to the bed which Dennis had been denied . |