Example sentences of "way [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horror gave way slowly to self-pity , the blue eyes filled with tears and she began to weep , the tears making runnels down her heavy makeup . |
| 2 | According to a Nature Conservancy Council Report ( 1981b ) significant declines in swan populations in many parts of Britain are due to the ingestion of lead shot and weights which find their way on to lake and stream beds from where they are consumed as grit . |
| 3 | From the tour a distressing evening found its way on to TV screens . |
| 4 | In the censorship scale obscene literature might be rated as less serious than racist literature but both would have to defer to seditious literature which normally does not find its way on to library shelves . |
| 5 | These exotic fruits are increasingly finding their way on to supermarket shelves and from there to our fruitbowls . |
| 6 | With the market for the costliest wines at a current low point , more and more very expensive and underaged bottles are finding their way on to high-street wine merchants ' shelves . |
| 7 | Some words can go in more than one category : put them in the category of the simplest error , or the one that offers the simplest way in to teaching . |
| 8 | The way in to work , cycled there last week . |
| 9 | Sports sponsorship was the indirect way in to TV advertising . |
| 10 | One morning , on his way down to breakfast , Dada saw her kneeling on the left-hand flight of the double staircase ; thinking she was saying her prayers , she was bent so low , Dada stepped past her politely . |
| 11 | How ? she pondered as she made her way down to breakfast . |
| 12 | How any attempt was going to be made when she was in Mariánské Láznë and Ven in Prague , she had n't fathomed as she made her way down to breakfast . |
| 13 | ON MY third voyage as a cadet , on the way down to West Africa war was declared . |
| 14 | He left the room , and she heard his shoes whisper their way down to Room C. |
| 15 | When he was ready he came back into her room , shutting the door behind him on his way down to dinner . |
| 16 | It 's the distance the axe is swung back ( without overdoing it ) that allows power and speed to be gathered on the way down to impact . |
| 17 | er those of you in the maths exam could start making your way over to room fifty six |
| 18 | After breakfasting with the mortar team I made my way over to Brigade H.Q As I passed along the wall of the orchard I suddenly thought about the Frenchman and his family who lived in the cottage on the other side of the wall . |
| 19 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 20 | ‘ We are trying to bring everything up to date , ’ says Mr Lawrence , ‘ the way we sell , who we sell through , what we sell , the emphasis of core values all the way through to transparency of financial reporting . ’ |
| 21 | Farm workers are an ageing labour force as the cohort from the days when they were more numerous gradually works its way through to retirement . |
| 22 | After a final desultory wander round Charterhouse Square , he made his way home to bed . |
| 23 | But it had not , and he managed to make his way home to safety . |
| 24 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 25 | Kissing all the boys , she made her way up to bed , taking her tea with her . |
| 26 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 27 | I 'm on my way up to town . |
| 28 | Philip had forgotten temporarily about them moving from Little Knoll , what with getting Caspar out of the tractor-shed and thinking of Lee making his way up to Jubilee Wood . |
| 29 | It was just ten minutes to nine , and Richard walked by on his way up to World 's End to catch a bus to the office . |
| 30 | When two hours had passed and he had n't returned , Lyn imagined him finding his way back to Bale 's and by this act leading her there in search of him . |