Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the way [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |
| 2 | The head was in the way anyway . |
| 3 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 4 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ They called it degrading interspish — ’ Her tongue was in the way again . |
| 6 | Yet in an article published a decade later , Herz reassessed his claims and retracted his thesis that the state was on the way out . |
| 7 | And was the most modern station so it was obvious Street was on the way out . |