Example sentences of "his way [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah See er John 's a bit too , well he 's a bit oldish or old in his ways to have the responsibility of youngsters . |
| 2 | He was an open supporter of the Covenant and when he visited his friend the blacksmith , he was on his way to join a band of Covenanters about to confront a party of Dragoons . |
| 3 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 4 | He was on his way to visit a friend in Aberdenn , more than 500 miles away . |
| 5 | Bill Clinton has gone out of his way to stress the so-called special relationship will not be imperilled while he is in the Oval Office . |
| 6 | Syl went out of his way to preserve a semblance of youthfulness , wearing his clothes untidily and even eating in a haphazard fashion as though he was n't quite old enough to have learned proper manners . |
| 7 | The idea for the first excursion had flashed through his brain as he tramped across the middle of England from Market Harborough to Leicester on his way to attend a temperance meeting . |
| 8 | Rod , who hoped Renee would doze for the whole flight , was on his way to record an album . |
| 9 | But Carter went out of his way to underwrite the Shah himself as well . |
| 10 | The husband , Dennis , shuddering in the cold on his way to work , on his way to watch the night , forgets . |
| 11 | A disappointed man , he died 6 May 1838 , while travelling between Marlborough and Devizes , on his way to see a patient with a spinal affliction . |
| 12 | ‘ Marler was on his way to see the chief on Dartmoor . |
| 13 | In his speech he went out of his way to welcome the establishment of the Faculty , and the part it would play in encouraging and enhancing proficiency and knowledge of tax not only within the profession , but in business , industry and commerce , and among the general public the profession serves . |
| 14 | One day , on his way to do the ploughing , he met a man who 'd just come back from the south and had passed several flocks of sheep on the other side of Chhakuri Lekh . |
| 15 | He was killed by an axe blow to the base of his skull as he walked through woods to the railway station in the settlement of Semkhoz on his way to conduct the early morning service at his church in the nearby village of Novaya Derevnya . |
| 16 | Paul goes out of his way to say a heartfelt ‘ Thank you ’ to the Christian church in Philippi for the way that they had continued to care for him . |
| 17 | Police say they 've caught a terrorist red handed on his way to plant a bomb . |
| 18 | Police say they 've caught a terrorist red handed on his way to plant a bomb . |
| 19 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 20 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 21 | In the House of Commons , Douglas Hurd went out of his way to exculpate the ‘ other governments ’ ( Syria and Iran ) which his colleague Paul Channon had denounced in March 1989 . |
| 22 | A senior French detective is on his way to question the man , a spokesman said . ’ |
| 23 | MacLane's– driver swerved out of his way to get the last crawling quintuplet . |
| 24 | The Profitboss goes out of his way to discourage report-writing : to do so he will go out of his way to walk the patch and give ( or obtain ) thirty-second verbal reports . |
| 25 | While having his horse shod , Nisbet told John Morton that , with George Woodburn , he was on his way to assist the Covenanters , and persuaded the blacksmith to join them . |
| 26 | BRITISH Bulldog , alias Davey Boy Smith , flew the flag with passion when he bulldozed his way to win the golden belt of champions at the world SummerSlam wrestling spectacular . |
| 27 | Luke therefore goes out of his way to excuse the actions of Pilate : |
| 28 | Geoff is on his way to marry the rich Dorothy , to pay off his debts … . |
| 29 | The Llangurig line is a classic in this respect ; much of the damage is due to nature and man has not gone out of his way to remove a monument of the past . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ Bryan seemed to be going out of his way to play a father 's role with the children . |