Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have [verb] [pos pn] way " in BNC.

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1 Dangerous items such as these should never have found their way into household waste .
2 Roosevelt might nevertheless have got his way in 1943 , had it not been for developments inside France .
3 Nathan Holland on the other hand was a faithful friend , and but for him Paul 's last work might never have found its way into print .
4 Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door .
5 In normal circumstances the men would just have forced their way in and relieved him of the weapon .
6 She was thankful for the moonlight for , without it , she knew she would never have found her way to the cab rank .
7 It cost me a deal in time and labour and money to get my castle back from them , and if we had not had such a pious garrison — all but the lame and bedridden in church ! — they would never have prised their way into the place .
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