Example sentences of "were [adv prt] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that if the Hohenzollern candidature were out of the way , peace would be assured . |
| 2 | A small , thin tabby , she spent her life trying to work out the central dilemmas of her life — how to get in and out of the house , and why the fat man called Henry tried to kick her every time the two other people in the house were out of the way . |
| 3 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 4 | Zhang was not totally opposed to the idea , but some members of the increasingly politicized Guandong Army felt that more radical action to extend Japanese control in Manchuria could be taken if Zhang , known to be somewhat recalcitrant and a far from willing puppet , were out of the way . |
| 5 | If tile 4 were out of the way , as in c , the position b could be obtained from a by sliding the tiles 7 , 8 , 3 , 5 , and 1 in a loop . |
| 6 | Not that I could n't ring you any time while they 're here , ’ she added hurriedly , as if feeling guilty of being underhand while her parents were out of the way . |