Example sentences of "[vb pp] on his [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They were standing on the waste ground behind the car park which Hoomey had crossed on his way to Bean 's . |
2 | Drawing upon the vast fund of information gathered on his trip to South America ( 1799–1804 ) , Humboldt began to study how the physical environment determined the geographical distribution of plants . |
3 | On 6 July 1988 , Buadilio Aguilar Dardón , an 18-year-old secondary school student in Guatemala City was detained on his way to school . |
4 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |
5 | But in the end , our hero prevails — not just through pluck ; luck plays a part too — and by the end of the story he is launched on his way to fame and fortune . |