Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [pos pn] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spinning round , kicking a heap of empty cider bottles out of her way , she raced back towards the entrance , not stopping now to feel her way , cannoning off the walls in the darkness . |
| 2 | ‘ She has n't exactly gone out of her way to make anybody else happy , has she ? ’ |
| 3 | … She went out of her way to be unpleasant to people . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's going to Horsfall Woods and it will be only a little out of her way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not feeling well ’ , she whispered in somewhat imperfect French , and the woman moved hastily out of her way . |
| 6 | The protesters themselves seemed surprised and , as a group , moved back out of her way by some joint instinct . |
| 7 | In fact she went out of her way to show her support for the people who had contributed to it . |
| 8 | One woman in particular went out of her way to help me out . |
| 9 | Medical workers said the princess went out of her way to help dispel local superstition about the disease . |
| 10 | Indeed , at times she even seemed to go out of her way to draw attention to herself . |
| 11 | And she went out of her way to praise artist David Hankinson as she unveiled his painting of her in fairy-tale pink gown complete with tiara , pearl drop earrings and gold watch . |
| 12 | But you can take it from us , the Queen was incandescent with rage and at Balmoral right now every member of her family from Prince Philipdown is desperately trying to stay out of her way . |
| 13 | I keep well out of her way . |
| 14 | She relates that Lena will even take the trouble to teach customers how to use machines that they have bought elsewhere and go out of her way to make deliveries , both free of charge . |
| 15 | But , in the end , the kindest thing to do was to get out of her way . ’ |
| 16 | A girl , an enormously fat teenager , shouldered me out of her way . |
| 17 | I kept out of her way . |
| 18 | She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year . |
| 19 | In all these months when Matthew had kept out of her way , he had changed from the boy she had known when she first came to Maisie 's house . |
| 20 | It crossed her mind that he might well be keeping out of her way after his failure to secure some kind of punishment for Matthew 's cruel and unacceptable behaviour earlier in the day . |
| 21 | Mostly he kept out of her way . |
| 22 | " She just went out of her way to get to know what was going on . " |
| 23 | And keep out of her way . |
| 24 | She had come rather out of her way and now walked back along a square where a learned society had its premises . |
| 25 | She went out of her way to pass near him , and he went out of his way to insult her . |
| 26 | Mrs. Mott went out of her way to be courteous to Sara as though sorry for the initial error she had made . |
| 27 | Fran tried to step past him , but he just stood where he was , making no attempt to get out of her way while he continued to study her in a way that made her suddenly self-conscious . |
| 28 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 29 | The models , who were clustered at the door , stepped quickly out of her way . |
| 30 | Unfortunately it meant that there was n't enough for the consultant to do to keep him out of her way , and every time she turned round she almost fell over him . |