Example sentences of "[noun] was [prep] the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 2 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |
| 3 | A sort of bovine preoccupation enveloped me when Rebecca was on the way . |
| 4 | Now although the only known brother of Æthelred named Edmund died in the early 970s , when Thietmar of Merseburg describes events in England in 1016 he tells how , after a battle in which Edmund was killed , the Danes fled from before London because they had heard that help was on the way from Edmund 's brother Æthelstan and the Britannis . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jack had married the daughter of the Westward family , as unlikely a match as was ever known in the country , but necessary since a child was on the way . |
| 8 | There is a possibility that minister here refers to Ealdhun and that Offa was angered because Ealdhun had given his lands to Christ Church , Canterbury , without King Ecgberht 's permission , but even if this were the case , it is clear that Offa 's reaction was to the way in which Ecgberht also had made grants of land without his permission ; he revoked both Ealdhun 's donations and Ecgberht 's , not only to Canterbury but to Rochester . |
| 9 | At first it went slowly , but in December Luch could tell the bees , warm in their straw wrappings , that an heir was on the way . |
| 10 | The other difference was in the way in which the association was organised . |
| 11 | By the end of 1922 the figure had jumped to a remarkable 155 , showing that recovery was on the way and economic activity increasing . |
| 12 | Mr. Major said the figures proved recovery was on the way . |
| 13 | MORE rain was on the way to much of Britain yesterday just hours after parts of Scotland and northern England finished clearing up after floods and snowfalls . |
| 14 | ‘ Ba , ’ she said , ‘ did you not say Wilson was in the way of being in touch ? , |
| 15 | I actually slept the entire night , because I thought goody , as soon as the divorce goes off , the sooner I 'm on my way out of the ar oh Rocky , Rocky your head was in the way it was your own silly fault |
| 16 | The head was in the way anyway . |
| 17 | Within a few years a temporary revival was on the way , however , and William Titford , grandson of William the Emigrant , was achieving a fair degree of success as a partner in the silk-manufacturing business of Cotes , Titford and Brookes , then operating in Union Street , Bishopsgate . |
| 18 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Driving on , he told Paula that Harry Butler was on the way , that he 'd given a brief description of Evelyn so Butler would recognize her , plus her address . |
| 22 | Barrister David Ashton , acting for the liquidators of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , told the court that good news was on the way for the mostly small depositors , many of whom lost their life savings when the Douglas-based bank collapsed seven years ago . |
| 23 | The original bitterness was over the way Niki had pointed a gun at McLaren 's head and taken the team for a great deal of money . |
| 24 | Perhaps he would wait until a baby was on the way , for Mrs Darne had not failed to notice that these days extramarital pregnancy , once a horrible disgrace , was often the loudly publicized occasion for a wedding , with the bride , far from ashamed of herself , carrying all proudly before her . |
| 25 | There were one or two ladies in Baldersdale who were very good at midwifery , which was just as well when a baby was on the way and the doctor could n't get there in time , or the weather impeded him . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ They called it degrading interspish — ’ Her tongue was in the way again . |
| 28 | Yet in an article published a decade later , Herz reassessed his claims and retracted his thesis that the state was on the way out . |
| 29 | WE TOLD you a few weeks back that multi-million pound striker Marco Gabbiadini was on the way out at Derby . |
| 30 | But in the meantime another form of recording was on the way — ‘ digital recording ’ . |