Example sentences of "the journey to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 The drives between towns are a delight , and the journey to Graz , with its famous clocktower is no exception .
2 The most prominent of the dayis were captured and beheaded , their heads being sent to the sultan ( except for one which was carried away by the Danube whilst being washed by a gypsy in preparation for the journey to Istanbul ) .
3 She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends .
4 She makes the journey to Sanderstown in under the hour . ’
5 For most of the journey to Barnswick Ruth deliberately tried to think of nothing , to let her mind go blank .
6 I 'd better stop now , as I have to prepare speeches & songs for this evening , and also pack for the journey to Shanghai tomorrow .
7 The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time .
8 As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden .
9 Arriving in tltis self-proclaimed cultural centre of Australia , we had 30 minutes ' stopover while the big Australian National Railway diesels were uncoupled and a new pair attached for the journey to New South Wales .
10 I wo n't bother with the details of the journey to China — except to say it was a bit of an ordeal , as the British Caledonian airplane broke down at Karachi ( an axle broke on landing ) , and so we were kept endlessly waiting around .
11 Similarly a few lines further on , in the description of the journey to Golgotha , the long version has " goost , swete Ihesu out of Ierusalem toward " ( p.99 ) , where the interjection of " swete Ihesu " interrupts the action of the scene and lends the whole description a devotional tone .
12 The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed .
13 GERMAN REFUGEE CHILDREN EMBARK IN HOLLAND FOR THE JOURNEY TO ENGLAND PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY
14 The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England .
15 For visitors interested in making the journey to Bauen by private transport the route could be combined with a trip from Brunnen along the Axenstrasse to Fluelen and Altdorf .
16 Sea Bee Air 's ZK-DFC made her last flight ( above ) on August 26 from Ardmore to Mechanics Bay on the Auckland waterfront for transfer to a ship and the journey to Colorado .
17 Otherwise the journey to Wapping was quiet .
18 It did n't matter if you saw God , quit your job , and took the journey to India .
19 In 1769 he obtained a cadetship in the East India Company 's army at Madras , made the journey to India , but seeing no prospect of advancement there , returned to London via China .
20 I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon .
21 Senior officer Robert Ambler said the journey to Tiju , in Romania , had taken a year to prepare and followed a successful trip by three officers .
22 His cellarman who had to make the journey to Culver Street at least twice a day was an ex-City Police Sergeant named Golding .
23 Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans .
24 But Luke , she remembered , had been four years old , tall for his age but thin as a stick and pale with excitement , that day , at the journey to Manchester , the speeches , the exalted , psalm-singing atmosphere of the crowds .
25 This route would necessitate only one climb to the ridge above the village , from where it was downhill all the way to Rainbagh , whence I could complete the journey to Naini Tal by car .
26 Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam .
27 For the purpose of saving her , Ransom ( veteran of the journey to Malecandra in Out of the Silent Planet ) is actually made a Ransom for her , a sort of Christ figure sent to wrestle with the wicked scientist Weston who tries to bring about the Fall on the newly inhabited planet Venus .
28 The second man did likewise , the third man completing the journey to Roade Station , where they all met and caught the 5.30 am workmen 's train to Wolverton .
29 Not that there had been anything problematical about the journey to La Paz — just the normal anxieties .
30 Likewise , South Metropolitan cars were permitted to make the journey to Hendon Works over L.C.C .
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