Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] way " in BNC.

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1 She went upstairs to change , thinking how proud Arnold would have been of the way she had coped with the water shortage .
2 ‘ I could have plugged the pilot if you had n't been in the way . ’
3 Carlson could think of no reason why Bulbir Singh Mann should be the target of assassins ; presumably he had been in the way .
4 That was not impossible , for there had been six months between the X-rays , in which case The tumour could have already been on the way down when it was spotted .
5 Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal .
6 Abruptly , and with a habit she had been on the way to forgetting he had , Ven Gajdusek cut her off again .
7 Miss Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , is thought to have been on the way home from a riverside barbecue when the accident happened just before 11 pm .
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