Example sentences of "his way [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall my partner panting , puffing and praying his way over a traverse which in no way resembled the route description , to arrive with abject horror at my belay . |
| 2 | This is a very well known piece , which needs vivacity and spontaneity in presentation ; Mercutio is enjoying himself , weaving his way through a fantastical set of images . |
| 3 | In 1987 at one of the regular meetings of superintendents , I listened as the deputy chief constable talked his way through a potential problem for the increasing numbers of graduates in the service , who ‘ obviously can not all make it to the top ’ . |
| 4 | But he consummately ad-libbed his way through a largely secret press meeting , attended by Lennart Jeansson , now one month into his new job as president of Volvo Car Corporation . |
| 5 | Forcing his way through a gap in a hedge , he caught his hand on a thorn and saw beads of blood ooze from a long scratch . |
| 6 | Sure enough , at the top , when he had found his way through a screen of brambles , he could see the tumbledown shed across an expanse of gardens . |
| 7 | He leaned forward over the steering wheel to see his way through a deep pot-hole in the road . |
| 8 | Disguised as a courier , Charles made his way through a winter-gripped Europe to Savona , on the Gulf of Genoa , and thence , with fewer disasters than his father had encountered 30 years before , to Antibes in the south of France . |
| 9 | This combination of fights , action and music proved equally unstoppable ( and profitable ) right through the '70s , Roundtree slugging his way through a TV series and a couple of further movies , stopping , at one point , to gain the vocal assistance of The Four Tops as he blasted a gang of unfortunate slave traders . |
| 10 | Then , King fought his way through a mob of well-wishers eager to shake his hand or receive a nod of acknowledgement . |
| 11 | Encouraged by his sister Julie , a night-club singer , he became an extra in films and graduated his way through a long succession of walk-ons to become a featured player in B-pictures . |
| 12 | ‘ Du n no , ’ said Masklin , pushing his way through a particularly tough clump of grass . |
| 13 | The Chelsea midfielder picked his way through a bewildered Sheffield Wednesday rearguard and rolled the ball past Chris Woods to produce an early front-runner for the Goal of the Season award . |
| 14 | He worked his way through a bag of sandwiches and four cans of Pepsi . |
| 15 | He chewed his way through a large and over-greasy midday meal , drank more beer than he ought to have done , took some laudanum with his brandy and water to give him sleep and felt his brain ripped open by a nightmare which wolfed down his mind in the open bleeding mouths of women . |
| 16 | She could glance back and see him , bobbing his way through a sea of heads . |
| 17 | There must be more to this country squire than was disclosed by his clipped mannerisms and his habit of smiling each time he spoke , as though to ease his way through a dubious world . |
| 18 | Oliver , observing the scene with the same keen interest as had she , munched his way through a Dickensian gingerbread cake , his emotions harder to determine than those of his companion . |
| 19 | ‘ Lucenzo — ’ Her hand was grabbed and she was being dragged along behind him as he shouldered his way through a group clustered around a hilarious puppet-show . |
| 20 | The Reichsführer sat at an oak table working his way through a mound of papers . |
| 21 | Watching intrepid explorer Michael Brisbane force his way through a dense thicket of bamboo , you could be forgiven for thinking we 're in Nepal . |
| 22 | C.I . 's response after the restart was again positive with scrum-half Gareth Hall forcing his way through a ruck of players to apply the touchdown and with wind assistance fullback McDougall converted causing obvious problems for the home side now trailing 13–3 . |
| 23 | The enormity of such a task has been made obvious by an American psychologist in the 1930s , who worked his way through an unabridged dictionary , and found that there were about eighteen thousand words that could be used to describe people . |
| 24 | Last year in London 's Kilburn National he gargled his way through an entire set with a bad throat infection . |
| 25 | RAPID FIRE : Brandon ( son of Bruce ) Lee fights his way through an above-average martial arts tale . |
| 26 | If he has to talk about his dog , before long he 'll be deadpanning his way through an entire history of his dog 's cousin Spot 's last tail operation . |
| 27 | Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard . |
| 28 | He needs to be able to ask factual questions concerning his environment ( time of buses or trains , finding his way about a city , etc ) and understand the answers to these questions . |
| 29 | ERIK THORSTVEDT is playing his way towards a new contract at Tottenham . |
| 30 | In the earlier Wind Quintet Schoenberg was still feeling his way towards a 12-note style that was as well-characterized thematically as it was well-balanced in form . |