11.   On the way past the coffin Margaret bowed and kissed the lid.

12.   She could either turn round, or brazen her way past the pressmen to the lower reaches of the parkland.

13.   The family - without plane tickets and passports - had to talk their way past airport officials on their homeward journey.

14.   We wound our way past open fields into shady woods until we entered the neck of a small valley.

15.   Caroline managed to talk her way past the guard.

16.   Female fans fought their way past bodyguards and tore at his clothes.

17.   The children are still up?

18.   It was way past coffee-break time in the Chesterton Hotel, but no one seemed to notice.

19.   Wycliffe had to make his way past a small crowd of would-be sightseers held well back by a uniformed policeman.

20.   The tall man elbowed his way past the curtain and peered at the patient.