Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the problem was n't even helped there because you see he could n't get up the stairs easily , because the wardrobe was in the way . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 4 | The head was in the way anyway . |
| 5 | The evidence was of the way in which the rocks of the oceanic crust are magnetized ; it 's not the kind of thing that one comes across every day , so it will take a bit of explaining . |
| 6 | The baby was born at 7.20 in the morning , in the labour ward not the delivery room because Wendy failed to persuade any of the nurses that the baby was on the way . |
| 7 | Yet in an article published a decade later , Herz reassessed his claims and retracted his thesis that the state was on the way out . |
| 8 | The table was in the way , but he was still trying to move . |