Example sentences of "the journey to [noun] " 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 In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 She makes the journey to Sanderstown in under the hour . ’
6 For most of the journey to Barnswick Ruth deliberately tried to think of nothing , to let her mind go blank .
7 I 'd better stop now , as I have to prepare speeches & songs for this evening , and also pack for the journey to Shanghai tomorrow .
8 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 .
9 He was not expected at Bramshill until after luncheon and had planned to take his time over the journey to north Hampshire , visiting churches at Sherborne St John and Winchfield and lunching at a pub near Stratfield Saye before arriving at Bramshill in time for the usual courtesies with the Commandant before his two-thirty lecture .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 The King , however , made it clear that neither mother nor son was welcome and so the journey to England had to be resumed .
15 GERMAN REFUGEE CHILDREN EMBARK IN HOLLAND FOR THE JOURNEY TO ENGLAND PHOTO : WIENER LIBRARY
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Otherwise the journey to Wapping was quiet .
20 Every day I need to get up at seven o'clock in order to get ready in time to catch the bus for school but because the bus has to pick up many other pupils the journey to school every day takes thirty minutes ( it can take up to one hour for other people ) .
21 When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front .
22 The journey to school can be a matter of daily terror in some areas .
23 It did n't matter if you saw God , quit your job , and took the journey to India .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 His cellarman who had to make the journey to Culver Street at least twice a day was an ex-City Police Sergeant named Golding .
28 Yet a combination of things , active marketing by both the gallery and the artist herself , made me make the journey to Watermans .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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