Example sentences of "way [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Tom Kenny , edging my way uneasily round all the fashionable people in the brightly lit room . |
| 2 | The man in the white linen jacket and pale yellow straw hat left the church of Gesù Nuovo and made his way slowly towards Piazza della Carità . |
| 3 | Then , turning back , I caught sight of the red bitch : she was making her way slowly towards the woodpile . |
| 4 | As she made her way slowly towards him she said , ‘ You 're awake then . |
| 5 | It is an angry , retrospective account of the trip to Aden which coincides more accurately with Nizan 's highly militant frame of mind in 1930 and 1931 , than it does with the Nizan of 1926 and 1927 groping his way slowly towards the solution of political action . |
| 6 | He stood for a moment on the promenade in the same huddled way , and then he made his way slowly towards a green-painted seat and sat slowly down on it . |
| 7 | She dragged her way slowly towards the door , waiting for Maman to call her back . |
| 8 | When she looked down the hill she saw Scathach making his way slowly towards her , through the dense thorns . |
| 9 | Benjamin was on the point of replying when we heard the clip-clop of horses ' hooves and saw Doctor Agrippa making his way slowly towards us ; his mount , a gentle cob , ambling along as if it was a balmy summer 's day . |
| 10 | By 8.30 am , Monday , 15 September 1937 , I was making my way slowly up Granville Street lugging two heavy suitcases , one of which was full of favourite books . |
| 11 | The transport was a yellow fever-van drawn by a horse , and I remember my mother weeping after the bizarre vehicle had made its way slowly up the road . |
| 12 | I think I 'd like to lick my way slowly over your luscious curves until I 've sampled all the honeyed temptations you keep hidden away . |
| 13 | They picked their way slowly through the mud and puddles on the village path , unfurling a haze of blue smoke around them as they went . |
| 14 | I made my way slowly through the crowd of people , pausing now and again to chat briefly to people I knew . |
| 15 | He sighed regretfully as he picked his way slowly through the tattered refugees camped here and there on the floor , wondering what had become of his Louis XVI table . |
| 16 | I was early and made my way slowly through the deserted canyon of skyscrapers on this hot afternoon . |
| 17 | Athelstan picked up his leather bag , marched out of the tavern , collected Philomel and made his way slowly through the empty streets to London Bridge . |
| 18 | Fine town houses of the eighteenth century , some of them now embassies , give way slowly to the more compact residences of the nineteenth , then to the woods and then the seaside suburb of Scheveningen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The birds were still singing as she made her way slowly to the cars . |
| 21 | The wind was cool , and the night was now pitch dark as she made her way slowly to the front door . |
| 22 | Starting off from the old town hall in the middle of the High Street he made his way slowly down the road as far as the Black Bull pub , accompanied by Mr Tim Devlin , who holds the Stockton South with a slender 774 majority , and his wife Carol . |
| 23 | He pointed to the straight-backed figure of a striking Chinese girl in an embroidered silk dress before whom the crowds were parting as she made her way slowly along the opposite pavement . |
| 24 | He will be searching for a monster pike and working his way slowly along the river by casting spinners and lures into all of the likely spots . |
| 25 | He made his way slowly along the dust track as rickets had disabled his knees and the only way he could move was to shuffle his bare feet slowly along the hard-packed mud track . |
| 26 | Miranda sniffed the heavy scent of the lilies ; in the flower room beyond the bar , she could hear Elinor and Buzz talking as they made their way slowly into the summer salon . |
| 27 | The market was in full swing as they made their way slowly round the piazza , the Brigadier leaning on the horn to make a path through the jumble of cars and people milling about in the bright but fitful sunshine . |
| 28 | We turned our heads in the direction the Brigadier is pointing and see a Commando about a hundred-and-fifty yards away towards the end of the orchard and almost obscured by the trees , making his way slowly in the direction of Scouse 's latrine . |
| 29 | The harder and finer material only made its way slowly in this field . |
| 30 | Their legs entwined , like some exotic two-headed carnival monster in skin-tight red , yellow and blue costumes , the limbo dancers were gyrating their way skilfully beneath a burning pole . |