Example sentences of "their way " in BNC.
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1 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
2 | The literary naturalism of the last century went to the poor and itemised their way of life , producing for adversity truthful , distressing inventories and interiors — as in George Moore 's novel of the Nineties , Esther Waters , which starts with a manor-house , servants and horses , and travels to Soho for compulsive gambling and a fatal cough . |
3 | In order to further speed and cheapen the process , inferior ingredients such as maize , rice , triticale , wheat flour and potato starch are used and helped on their way by chemicals that hasten fermentation , cut down on the yeast head in the vessels to allow more wort to be treated , and to give a lively fake head to the finished product . |
4 | The current obsession with pseudo-Victorian and other bogus ‘ historical ’ styles imposed willy-nilly and quite regardless of the true age of the pub , seems to suggest two things ; firstly that pub designers and fitters have completely lost their way , both in recognising and respecting what is genuinely old and in looking for a wholeheartedly modern pub style ; secondly that there is some king of awareness , correct but misguided , that people like their pubs to look old and feel familiar . |
5 | Cuisine des femmes could be the latest cooking style if some French women chefs have their way . |
6 | The remaining passengers — there were not many of them — had in the meanwhile managed to make their way , by scrambling from the outside of one car to the next , to the safety of the solid wooden landing stage . |
7 | ‘ I 'll warn Mrs Pettifer they 're on their way , ’ said the sergeant , ‘ Then you 'd better keep an eye on the old lady and I 'll watch the froggie geezer . |
8 | And without more ado the two officers fastened their clips about their ankles , wheeled out with velocipedes and were on their way . |
9 | ‘ Council housing does n't fit in with their way of thinking , that 's all it is . |
10 | At they munch their way through , you progressively add waste until the bin 's full . |
11 | Both of these members of the Rubiaceae family are finding their way into good houseplant departments . |
12 | A deep black dado below the white walls surrounds the room in order to provide an enhanced sense of perspective to those who see only a blur and have to find their way using very little visual data . |
13 | In the gloaming the Weem folk made their way home along the dark gorge of the road . |
14 | The low lands were patched with hayfields at every stage of readiness , from bleached yellow to ferny green , and across the coloured surfaces people moved as though they were stitching and knitting at its texture , arms pulling on rakes , backs stooped under burdens on their way to the steadings . |
15 | Or if you keep them , there are four hundred of us here and two thousand on their way , and we will cut you down to a man . ’ |
16 | Insecurity , hunger , constant vilification and injustice were their lot , and it was as exhausted escapees that they made their way from Europe via Liverpool to Halifax ( then the most important port on the Atlantic coast ) , before finally settling in Montreal . |
17 | Many of these had found their way across America and Canada with the early settlers , along with psalm versions and hymnody . |
18 | On their way down my eyes spied a policeman on the horizon . |
19 | Some of them are to be found in Checkmate when the Red Pawns pick their way from square to square , whilst their Queen guides her King to his throne with tender steps . |
20 | He fears the impact on the traditional character of pubs if the brewers have their way and turn many of them over the leaseholders . |
21 | BASS , the UK 's biggest brewer and pub owner , are now well on their way to meeting the November 1992 deadline for disposing or freeing half their pubs over the 2,000 limit . |
22 | Other walkers were struggling up the dusty track , sweating and wheezing their way to the high plateau . |
23 | Some colours and wood grain effects are beginning to find their way on to the market , although most are still white . |
24 | MON 9 OCT Steve Marriott & Mickey Hutton In among those on their way up , and those who will never go anywhere , the pub rock circuit plays host to those who were once really something . |
25 | The experiment thus suggests that while alpha males can trade on their superior competitive ability to obtain mates , subordinates may have to wheedle their way into favour . |
26 | Llanelli ....... 27 Leicester ....... 8 GOING for the gap took on a painful new meaning for Steve Bowling when he helped Llanelli claw their way back to win this entertaining game . |
27 | In an early-start game her goal after seven minutes from a penalty corner set Leicester on their way to a 2-1 win against Exmouth . |
28 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |
29 | For many of the East Germans arriving in Prague , there is a unique emotional wrench when the time comes to make their way to the embassy doors . |
30 | With victory over the Racers , Cleveland Bombers would have made their way to the final ahead of the Scottish team . |