Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The war was apparently in the way , but that was more as a result of misunderstanding than anything else . |
| 2 | But he had not changed physically , the difference was there in the way he let Susan take the empty cup from his hand without noticing . |
| 3 | Annie was only too glad to cope with the clothes while her husband was out of the way . |
| 4 | The bacon and the cheese had all been transferred to the room-sized storage refrigerator behind the shop , and while her husband was out of the way Rennie Hamilton loaded all the groceries into the canvas bag and did a quick addition on the list and noted the amount on the end of the growing column in the credit book . |
| 5 | As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror . |
| 6 | Less than two years after all the fuss about Release 3 Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows — needing at least a 286 with 2Mbyte of RAM minimum and nobody thought that hardware specification was out of the way ! |
| 7 | The tower was soon in the way of traffic and was taken down by Mowlem who brought it , minus the clock , to Swanage by sailing ship where it was re-erected in 1868 in the grounds of The Grove , later greatly extended as the Grosvenor Hotel , and now to be redeveloped as marine residences . |
| 8 | Any player not committed to the cause was soon on the way through the exit door . |
| 9 | At that time our position was most of the way across the galaxy from the sector where the planet Vadinamia lay . |
| 10 | There was relief that the rise was out of the way and substantial enough to keep further advance at bay . |
| 11 | Mum could n't read anyway but she always seemed to know when Auntie Nellie wrote and Dad made it my job to hide these letters and give them to him when Mum was out of the way . |