With reference to Goldberg, Zhang, Xu and Zhou’s proposed categorization of the participating verbs and Gries’ collostructional analysis, this article aims to reveal the semantic meanings and the text domain distributions of the “Way Construction” in COCA texts. The results show:(1) “Normal Opening and Displacing” verbs are the participating verbs most strongly associated with the “Way Construction”; (2) Lemmatization cannot be easily performed because of the semantic-distinctions between the original form and its other inflections of some verbs in the participating verbs slot; (3)The semantic categories and inflections of participating verbs have their preference on text domains. This research has enriched the content of the “Way Construction” features.