Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] on the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 2 | Another dealer would regularly punt out £40,000 or so worth of stock or so on the account to — wait for it — a school dinner lady . |
| 3 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 4 | His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England . |
| 5 | There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief . |
| 6 | World champion , and well on the way to winning it for a second time . |
| 7 | That put the Perth team 4-2 ahead and well on the way to the title . |
| 8 | And then on the troopship to South Africa in 1941 , Randolph gambled with his rich friends and lost a fortune . |
| 9 | Five year old Alicia Spivey is well and truly on the road to recovery after she was diagnosed with cancer as a baby . |
| 10 | Leadership depends for its success not only on the knowledge , skills and personality of the leader , but also on the task to be achieved , the skills and motivation of the team , and the environment or situation in which the leader has to operate . |
| 11 | Picketing — or , as he has it , ‘ picquetting ’ — he considered an ‘ abominable tyranny ’ , not yet revolution , even as seen from Peel 's Home Office in 1830 , but well on the way to it . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , a Luftwaffe officer , recently wounded , but well on the way to recovery . |