Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 They made their stooping way up and down the rows of tomato plants .
2 She knew only , as they made their slow way along the beach back to the town , that she felt exhausted but peaceful , even momentarily carefree , as if she had shed burdens that had been weighing her down for a long time .
3 Or would they go their separate ways , each ruling an independent principality ?
4 After the Windsor Castle wedding of Lady Helen Windsor and Tim Taylor there is a peck on the cheek for Diana from Charles and they go their separate ways .
5 After this they go their separate ways .
6 First the sadness and disarray , then the evanescent transcendence ; then the bodies put on clothes again , and there is a prowl of word and gesture before they go their separate ways .
7 Charles flew down from Aberdeen , Diana arrived from Highgrove ; but instead of going home together , at least for the night , they went their separate ways .
8 They went their separate ways : the young politician to the floor of the House to promote new industrial and commercial legislation which would , no doubt , exercise his legal mind , and the industrial manager to the central lobby , and the way out .
9 As they went their separate ways , critics gave Martin , who had been the straight man of the team , little chance of finding the kind of success they predicted for Lewis .
10 But they had finished with Elise 's death , and now Merrill had come back to the Midlands city where she and Elise had grown up before they went their separate ways .
11 Henceforth they went their different ways and gradually became friendly rivals in their respective spheres of activity on behalf of deaf people .
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