Example sentences of "[noun prp] on the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I listen to him now , gung-ho for Delorsism , I can only reflect that Saul on the road to Damascus was nothing compared to Neil on the autoroute to Brussels . |
| 2 | Motorist Alan Rowbotham of Blakey Close , Redcar and lorry driver Ian Sleightholme of Captain Cook 's Close , Staithes , both escaped unhurt when their vehicles collided at Pond Hill on the Scarborough to Whitby road . |
| 3 | Flying over the Bay of Bengal on the way to Rangoon they experienced a terrifying monsoon storm . |
| 4 | Drake ( left ) defeated Clark to set Royal Berkshire on the road to victory against David Lloyd 's Heston |
| 5 | ‘ Like Saul on the road to Damascus , ’ Leo said . |
| 6 | When I listen to him now , gung-ho for Delorsism , I can only reflect that Saul on the road to Damascus was nothing compared to Neil on the autoroute to Brussels . |
| 7 | packing Friday on the way to mum Peter 's mum she told them she 's just in so much pain , she wants it doing so he 's gon na get in , I said , it 's poss that she 'll be in six days and probably off a few weeks after when she gets home it 's operation on her neck and shoulder they 're going to release the nerve they reckon it 's it 's a she told them and do what they will with it . |
| 8 | SPANHOE AIRFIELD near HARRINGWORTH on the road to Laxton is commemorated by a memorial erected in 1983 on the site of the main entrance to the airfield . |
| 9 | The route : a complete crossing of the French Pyrenees from Hendaye-Plage on the Atlantic to Banyuls-Sur-Mer on the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | They are all criminals , of course , who ride in the Stolypin carriages from Pot'ma on the way to Barashevo . |
| 11 | Mollie was the only child of Thomas Arthur Gryke , manufacturer from Eaglesclough on the way to Huddersfield and do n't let anybody forget it ! |
| 12 | You probably remember , erm , a stimulating little book published last year by Frank on the Impulse to Philanthropy , where certainly in his nineteenth century analysis of the growth of philanthropy , he saw to main things , evangelicalism , which er , meant that people were going out looking for converts , and therefore doing good social work on the way , and the growth of the women 's movement , in the sense that women otherwise unemployed were looking for a new area of activity to get into . |
| 13 | A quarter-mile embankment running through Carshalton on the line to Victoria was chosen as the first to experience new ‘ lineside vegetation management ’ practices . |
| 14 | In the push across the frontier in the centre , the Iraqis drove towards two specific areas : Qasr-e-Shirin and nearby Sar-e-Pol-e-Zahab on the road to Tehran ; and Mehran and Bostan/Susangerd , farther south and guarding the approach to central Khuzestan . |
| 15 | The teacher in the next example has supplied just enough information to start Jonathon on the road to discovery . |
| 16 | Led by old Count William of Angoulême and his step-son Aimar of Limoges they left on 7 July , joining Audebert of La Marche on the road to Jerusalem . |
| 17 | When she finally drew in behind the charcoal BMW on the road to Drogheda , she brandished the plastic bag and gestured — lead me on ! |
| 18 | The viaduct at Herries Road on the approach to Wadsley Bridge in LNER days sees C13 4–4–2 No. 6058 heading a typical Sheffield area suburban train of the period , in this case probably bound for Penistone . |
| 19 | Just outside Paguera on the road to Andraitx on Majorca 's picturesque West coast . |
| 20 | A flat , oblong mound fifteen feet high , about thirty feet wide and forty feet long , it stands like some horrible pimple outside Paris on the road to Saint Denis . |
| 21 | They were a day out of Pesth on the way to Kinsai and Rostov was concerned that when he met the Kha-Khan he would be able to speak enough Yek to conduct a simple conversation . |
| 22 | In 1984 the youth of the Diocese of Chipata met to discuss the story of Jesus on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 : 13–35 ) and ask the question , ‘ What do we talk about as we walk the path of life ? ’ |
| 23 | But Sam on the road to Mordor goes beyond both . |
| 24 | ‘ In two weeks I shall be taking you and Corrie Palmer on the train to London . |
| 25 | Heading north from Chesterfield on the road to Dronfield , with urban sprawl spreading its way along the valley of the River Drone , you would hardly guess that high on Barrow Hill a mile away stands Hagge Farm , as lost and as completely rural as anything in the country . |
| 26 | By the 1860s high-class suburbs had developed at Alderley Edge on the Manchester to Crewe main line and at Bowden and Altrincham on the Manchester to Chester line . |
| 27 | It was converted from a nobleman 's residence situated about two and a half miles north-east of San Gimignano on the way to Certaldo , is surrounded by its own gardens and is tastefully appointed in every aspect . |
| 28 | Just a couple of miles from San Gimignano on the road to Certaldo , a turning on the left leads on amidst fields , olive groves and vineyards for a further mile and a half or so to the tiny hamlet of Pancole . |
| 29 | Descriptions of offices , studios and wind tunnels , and an account of getting lost in Luton on the way to Vauxhall headquarters because of roadworks on the M1 , are no substitute . |
| 30 | Dan Knight takes up the story ‘ We were somewhere over Germany on the way to Berlin , flak was very heavy . |