Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 2 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 3 | The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time . |
| 4 | She put the telephone receiver down on the invitation to lunch with a quiet face , but an excited heart . |
| 5 | They came down on the Pennines to Alston before joining the A66 and heading East for Scotch Corner . |
| 6 | Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak . |
| 7 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 8 | lets hope old Syd is back bowling very soon … we 're off on the trail to South America now for one of the most demanding and torturous sporting trials of all … |
| 9 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 10 | Dara fled back to Agra and set off on the road to Delhi without daring to face his father . |
| 11 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 12 | If you 're not one of the 3.5 million who have already contracted out you will have lost out on the chance to back date for up to two years the National Insurance Contributions rebate plus the extra 2 per cent ‘ bribe ’ . |
| 13 | The series is geared towards the needs of amateur painters starting out on the road to success . |
| 14 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 15 | In early November Coleridge and the Wordsworths , whose deep and intuitive friendship had begun by now to exclude not only Sara but even Tom Poole , set out on the road to Porlock which Coleridge had taken the previous month . |
| 16 | Now is the time for tonics to help us forget the pain and step out on the road to recovery . |
| 17 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 18 | Pulling on navy shorts and a pale blue polo shirt over her white lace bra and pants , she made sure the cabin skylight was open as far as it would go , then gave her sleeping-bag a brisk shake and spread it out on the mattress to air . |
| 19 | Far better to leave it opened out on the mattress to air . |
| 20 | ‘ Aye , Ah 'm booked out on the flight to Lima in the mornin' . ’ |
| 21 | The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round . |
| 22 | There was even good news from previously sickly UK insurer Eagle Star which is now back on the road to recovery . |
| 23 | All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " . |