Example sentences of "their way through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reads like Masefield on a very bad day ; and one uses the word ‘ reads ’ with caution , since few people in recent times , except Lewis enthusiasts anxious to have read their way through the entire canon , can ever have bothered to press on with Dymer . |
| 2 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 3 | Because the rain blew in gusts , the doors were usually closed and the glass clouded and wept , and the world closed in and nothing existed at all except a diseased crew , buffeted and windswept , butting their way through the void . |
| 4 | Ninety per cent of their demand is for ‘ pretty ordinary ’ packages , and his staff know how to pick their way through the brochures . |
| 5 | Dot knew there must be people up there in the vulnerable places on the top floor because on their way through the draughty corridors they passed the lift-shafts , each with its rattling metal cage and fearful loops of cable and black rope dangling beneath like greasy snakes . |
| 6 | Dot clutched tight to Gloria 's coat as they made their way through the dark rustling leaves of some tall shrubs . |
| 7 | ‘ That guy seems OK , ’ Nathan said , as he and Ari tried to find their way through the labyrinth of Roirbak 's complex to the canteen . |
| 8 | As it is , many Christians have trouble finding their way through the various orders of service and different translations of the Bible . |
| 9 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 10 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |
| 11 | A subdued murmur became a roar as a number of soldiers pushed their way through the crowd towards the tower . |
| 12 | Thomas Tait in the lead , closely followed by Jack Coia , Basil Spence , T. Waller Marwick , A. D. Bryce , and other members of the team , the architects picked their way through the mud and piles of bricks that were to become the Empire Exhibition . |
| 13 | The cultural revival has been planned for years by members of the good old Council , members that prefer to stay in the background , having achieved the astounding feat of legislating and pedestrianising their way through the licensing laws , to an atmosphere of continental cultural Bonhomie from Blairdardie to Baillieston . |
| 14 | Narrow streets wind their way through the houses and shops , and there are many restaurants and coffee houses with the tempting aroma of fresh coffee and baking air to entice you in . |
| 15 | Midway between Valehouse and Hadfield , class 47 's 47200/146 pick their way through the weeds whilst returning the demolition train to Manchester . |
| 16 | The voice recordings were shipped to London where MI6 had to set up a totally new department of 250 specially recruited Russian-speaking experts to slowly work their way through the material . |
| 17 | This was the first time that father and son had been separated and it is apparent that Leopold undertook much of the organisation for the visit , advising Mozart and his mother of places to stay , even giving the costs of meals as they made their way through the German states . |
| 18 | Inspector Collis and Sergeant Fleet of the Surrey Police made their way through the streets of Egham to a rather down-market area known as Fishers Fields . |
| 19 | Together they pushed their way through the onlookers and supplied the bloodsoaked constable with his truncheon and handcuffs . |
| 20 | With Brando and Dean mumbling their way through the currently most talked about pictures , it was very much in vogue , passionately discussed and used among the younger actors . |
| 21 | The status of Top Traveller is one that is self-appointed and only has currency among the knots of those tacking their way through the continent with varying degrees of frustration and ill luck . |
| 22 | These burrowing earthworms literally eat their way through the soil forming deep , vertical , permanent burrows with smooth walls cemented together with mucus secretions . |
| 23 | There had been one or two prospective buyers , pushing their way through the tall weeds , with papers describing the property 's charms in their hands , but the general neglect seemed to dishearten them . |
| 24 | Initially , the great masses of floating pumice which had piled up on the sea made it difficult for ships to force their way through the water — rafts three metres thick were reported in places — but eventually parties were able to reach the islands and determine what changes had taken place . |
| 25 | Hopelessly outnumbered , they had charged up that slope , cutting and slashing their way through the serried ranks of Russian cavalry , forcing them back , back … |
| 26 | As in his previous adventure , the weed helped save him ; he made his way laboriously from tuft to tuft of the blackened reeds that thrust their way through the mud and ice . |
| 27 | Lymphocytes are small round cells which appear under the microscope as black dots , like tail-less tadpoles , working their way through the tissues . |
| 28 | We set up experiments on purified lymphocytes in test tubes to see if nutrients available on one side of a filter would provoke lymphocytes on the other side to wriggle their way through the membrane in that direction . |
| 29 | A glimpse off how these ‘ compensation effects ’ could work their way through the economy is given in another study , also by the Warwick institute , on the change in employment patterns over the next 10 years . |
| 30 | Mansell never got further than 1.6secs ahead of Senna , the gap rising and falling as they began to work their way through the back-markers on lap 15 . |