Example sentences of "way through to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 2 | Bunny raised no more than than an eyebrow and we shouldered our way through to the hall where Dosh and Freddie were discovering that they could really get to like Kümmel . |
| 3 | Armed with light Indian swords and shields of hippopotamus hide , they fought their way through to the King , forcing him to withdraw , wounded in the thigh . |
| 4 | The constable closed his lips in a firm line and made his way through to the yard . |
| 5 | He did not wait for an answer but led the way through to the kitchen . |
| 6 | The sheep were very curious and made a bee-line for me but I managed to push my way through to the birds . |
| 7 | One difficulty remains in that a mining venture would still need to find a way through to the deposit in a place where the sedimentary layer is not too thick . |
| 8 | On the windswept hill above the Imjin river he heard of the advance of some 27,000 Chinese troops and the efforts of the ‘ Glorious Glosters ’ , outnumbered 10 to one , to block their way through to the South Korean capital Seoul . |
| 9 | Screens were placed along the length of the hall dividing it into four aisles , leaving spaces at either end and a way through to the Law Courts , which at that time were on the west side of the hall . |
| 10 | They found some drinks , eventually , in a small beleaguered ante-room , where he fought his way through to the bar and acquired some fizzy orange . |
| 11 | They say they go out of their way to avoid trouble , having left a bar in Haymarket earlier in the evening because there was a group that seemed intent on a fight , swearing and pushing their way through to the bar . |
| 12 | Last year for instance Barton Shield skipper Colm McCarroll brought Wilson , Winston and Kehoe junior , the men who were subsequently to win the National youth title , into his line-up and Derry battled their way through to the quarter-finals before losing to Belvoir Park . |
| 13 | Marcus turned to the bar and ruthlessly elbowed his way through to the pole position . |
| 14 | He pushed his way through to the box office and thrust a handful of money through the window . |
| 15 | Some forced their way through to the landing side of the fence , but without their jockeys . |
| 16 | Lemminkainen was able to weave and cast spells to win his way through to the end of his journey . |
| 17 | Also it would involve computer firms in expensive re-designs. and at least part of this expense would find its way through to the end user . |
| 18 | Voluntary personal abstention continued in a modest way through to the end of American slavery but plans positively to develop free-labour cultivation in the American South , India or West Africa came to little in the 1850s and the British government never gave any serious consideration after equalisation of the sugar duties beginning in 1846 to a policy of discriminating in favour of free-grown produce . |
| 19 | He had even tried starting at page 1 and working his way through to the end . |
| 20 | What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project . |
| 21 | At least on this occasion , Becker had played his way through to the semi-finals of the eight-man exhibition event , organised by his manager , Ion Tiriac , before pulling out . |
| 22 | Down the road at the Gloucester leisure centre it was a weekend for table tennis fans … over 300 players were competing in the Cotswold Junior championships … the boys title went to Surrey … the girls to Yorkshire but local boy Ray Powell raised the roof by fighting his way through to the semi-finals |
| 23 | When washing your hair , work a blob of shampoo about the size of a ten pence piece into the roots , and let the lather work its way through to the ends . |
| 24 | HERE they are , folks — the super grandmas ( plus one grandad ) who have won their way through to the final of The People/Cadbury 's Roses Grandparent of the Year Competition . |
| 25 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 26 | You 're on , ’ said Susan , leading the way through to the studio next door . |
| 27 | Beverley Brown , a hairdresser from Georgian House Hair Salon , Richmond , has snipped her way through to the Newcastle regional heat of the fourth Young Protege Scholarship , organised by Wella . |