Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [pron] way [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having digressed on our way around the village , all that is left is the marsh and the woods . |
| 2 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 3 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 4 | It 's equally important that goods do n't get damaged on their way to the shop floor , or when they arrive there . |
| 5 | John McCarthy was working as a journalist in Beirut when he was seized on his way to the airport to leave . |
| 6 | She was wearing a dark tracksuit and was smiling warmly , as if she had simply stopped on her way to the solarium to pick up a neighbour . |
| 7 | They 'd stopped on their way across the marble floor , both of them blue-white in the lights and the fog . |
| 8 | Mrs Singh made things like enormous crisps called pompidoms , or some such funny name , and Hoomey was spurred on his way by the thought of them . |
| 9 | Peter drove slowly past the gates — the dignified gates through which most of his predecessors had stepped on their way to the church — and , as he did so , the new owner came out of the front door and clearly observed the dawdling and curious car . |
| 10 | Although Mr Smith would also win widespread support from MPs and constituency parties , the Conservatives could argue that Mr Kinnock 's replacement had been sent on his way by the union barons . |
| 11 | She hurtled over cliffs in flaming cars or was brutally murdered on her way to the dry cleaners . |