Example sentences of "way [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the free-kick , Anderton 's shot squeezed through a wall which resembled a collander , hit Deane on the way through and rolled in by the near post . |
| 2 | Greg elbowed his way through and got behind the engines , from where he could see into the garden . |
| 3 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 4 | At the end of the process , the 13 houses , once inhabited by 200 families , their numbers swollen to 1,000 people by transients who made their way in and slept on the stairways at night , were reduced to lodging 300 or 400 people in 108 rooms , only a quarter of whom were the original tenants , although the rents apparently had not been raised . |
| 5 | In normal circumstances the men would just have forced their way in and relieved him of the weapon . |
| 6 | AN 85-year-old woman was beaten up in her home by a man who tricked his way in and demanded money . |
| 7 | Half carrying , half trailing the inert figure , they reached the factory door , then edged their way in and laid the unconscious form on the floor . |
| 8 | The demonstrators pushed their way in and sat down and were lifted out again , limp and unresisting , by the police . |
| 9 | We forced our way on and found suitable straps to hand on to . |