Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] way " 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 | Patiently , steadily , he was easing his way back into her life , seeing her regularly , but not too regularly , and taking pains to get to know Dickie and myself , which was sensible since we were both important to Margaret . |
| 3 | Maclean realized that their only chance was to bluff their way out of the situation , so they set off for the main gate . |
| 4 | Drugs might make people schizophrenic — or the system , as Laing was suggesting whichever way It certainly reflected it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Soon I was groping my way up the tight , black corkscrew , mole-mode . |
| 8 | Methodism had clearly not yet achieved the success that was to come its way during the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | He would doubtless provide if a commission was to come his way a superb set of illustrations to Dante Alighieri 's The Divine Comedy . |
| 10 | The hills now , through which the train was winding its way , were pretty . |
| 11 | The two-lane road was winding its way sometimes so close to the sparkling sea that Gina felt she could lean out of the window and dabble her hand in it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And then word began to spread of this dashing , spirited young Yorkshirewoman who was hunting her way home . |
| 15 | Within 15 minutes or so , Alan Fordham would turn up at the commentary box , ready to resume discussion on the latest of the batch of modern drama texts through which he was picking his way . |
| 16 | Peter , now on his second pint of beer and his fourth cigarette , was picking his way with some difficulty through Les Fleurs du Mal . |
| 17 | Nobody in her line of sight was looking her way , but that did n't mean anything . |
| 18 | This was the early-eighties and Britain was clawing its way out of recession on the back of a demand-led boom . |
| 19 | Something at the back of his mind was pushing its way to the front and giving him a curious grey feeling . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I became aware that my mother was pushing her way towards me . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The medical wagon 's arrived , ’ the woman beside her said , but Ashley had grabbed up her jacket , jumped to her feet and was pushing her way out along the row . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The crowd was still there , but someone in uniform was pushing his way through and starting to harangue the singer . |
| 26 | Before the Burford constable could reply , Detective Eddy was pushing his way through the crowd and Constable Aplin hurried after him . |
| 27 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 28 | He was threading his way along the side of a steep and thickly wooded declivity when a voice hailed him from the other side . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The single mother who was a rape victim ( you have no excuse whatever , the judge had told the culprit ) ; the family whose home was struck by lightning the day after their insurers went broke ; the legless man who packed cosmetics at home because he liked to feel he was paying his way . |