Example sentences of "it [verb] [pos pn] way " in BNC.
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1 | Keep the weight well towards the left foot and push the ball down low , letting it bobble its way up the bank . |
2 | He returned their wave and gazed down the sun dappled ribbon of bright water as it meandered its way towards Sharpness docks a couple of miles distant . |
3 | Let it make its way or not , as fate determines . |
4 | The galley pulled away , its oars dipping as it made its way down , following the tide out into the open sea . |
5 | Azhag flew over the battlefield on his wyvern , swooping upon regiment after regiment and harrying the retreating army as it made its way to the refuge of Wolfenburg . |
6 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
7 | Many of the small boats which usually travelled its waters were moored for the night and The Sandhopper passed a number of them as it made its way up river . |
8 | " As you say , right , yes , will do , will do , " the small figure said , backing off , half-nodding , half-bowing as it made its way backwards to the winding-stair . |
9 | Jet-cloud interactions can generate localized H-H objects in a variety of ways , ranging from the production of internal shocks in the jet to radiation behind the shockwave systems at the front of the jet as it bores its way though the surrounding cloud . |
10 | Back in prehistoric times , the river which we now call the Thames was created by rains falling on hilly ground on the western side of this country , and meandering lazily until it found its way into the sea on the eastern side of the continental peninsular which became an island by separating itself from the continent of Europe . |
11 | The system of dating by the regnal year was afterwards adopted by a variety of authorities including bishops , popes and kings , and it found its way into literary narratives as well as official documents . |
12 | For most of us , the turkey is as traditional as mince pies , but the story of how it found its way on to the Christmas table is an interesting one . |
13 | Most of it would disperse as it found its way through the gravel , and it may not be necessary to form a soakaway at the end of the drain . |
14 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
15 | He read the letters interlaced with hearts ; he lit a cigarette , exhaled slowly , watching the smoke nudge across the roof until it found its way out into the sky through the circle in the roof like a full moon ; he lifted the door open , and looked across the olive grove . |
16 | The ball should have been cleared long before it found its way onto Robert Lee 's left boot . |
17 | ‘ A lot of it found its way to the Irish Republic . ’ |
18 | Somehow it found its way into the hands of a government minister , and he got in touch with us . ’ |
19 | A deeply rutted track , it crunches its way up to Monket House Crags , skips over a V in the skyline , and up some more . |
20 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
21 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
22 | Yeah , and you , that taste there 's always a taste in my mouth and then I can feel it pushing its way up . |
23 | When science forsakes this basis it loses its way . |
24 | She was a girl who took everything as it came her way and never felt slighted or rebuffed . |
25 | The opinion polls identify Mr Heseltine as the favoured successor to the Tory leadership , and he said in television and radio interviews yesterday that he would accept the ‘ huge honour ’ if it came his way . |
26 | The reaction of friends and relations was generally quite favourable and , as it came my way , an interesting and unexpected fact started to emerge . |
27 | There are a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issues facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
28 | Praxsys is one of a handful of noticeably small start-ups wrestling with the key interoperability issue facing Unix as it elbows its way on to the desktop . |
29 | It is now difficult to imagine it wending its way towards the City through open fields , the river itself , like so many of its mills , having long been engulfed by the suburbs . |
30 | That that 's lubricant that 'll loosen it and let it work its way through nice and gently . |