Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 2 | He was struck by the way that the buffalo hide pictures from the last century , drawn by his great-great grandfathers , showed the monastery as it was now , in 1997 . |
| 3 | He was struck by the way in which Muni had depicted the suffering , the bewilderment , and the anger of a simple man , by the way in which the atmosphere and pressures of a strike-bound community had been created , and above all by the reality of the violence , which was a thing ‘ that shrieks along a man 's nerves and settles in his stomach ’ . |
| 4 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |
| 5 | And he was encouraged by the way he came through the first 10-round contest of his 33-fight unbeaten career . |