Example sentences of "along the road to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going to school was an adventure ; no 'buses for us , there would be bird nesting in spring , and during the appropriate sea-son hoops would ring along the roads to school , to be hung on our pegs on the cloak-room ready for the race home . |
| 2 | She walked out of the cottage where she and Pilade were lodged in charge of Mr Landor and along the road to Siena so that she might see them approach before anyone . |
| 3 | The police car had pursued the Sierra along the road to Burton Salmon . |
| 4 | At one time this column stretched for some ten miles along the road to Viktring , together with their horses and lorries , supplies and women … |
| 5 | She jumped to her feet , and hurried back along the road to Weatherbury . |
| 6 | At first , Gloria took Dot along the road to school but it was often difficult for Gloria to get out of bed in time , so they arrived late . |
| 7 | For Reg , bookmaking was a mere step along the road to riches and power on the grand scale . |
| 8 | Willie Bond , the postman , was pushing his bicycle along the road to Nidden , at the end of his last delivery , and in the distance the rector could see Ella vanishing down the alley that led to Lulling Woods and Dotty Harmer 's house . |
| 9 | She tried to analyse them as she took an afternoon walk along the road to Nidden one winter 's day . |
| 10 | I had a damp cigarette in the shelter of a doorway — but there was nothing to be gained by hanging about here and I set off , squelching at every step , along the road to Shiel Bridge . |
| 11 | They were heading south-west along the road to Kinsai . |
| 12 | Carl is walking along the road to Bar Capri with his mother . |
| 13 | The parties to litigation , whether before a court or a tribunal , which results in trial and judgment have resisted many encouragements to settle the claim along the road to trial . |
| 14 | Dhamma is the charioteer that drives the chariot along the road to Nirvana . |
| 15 | South from Elphin , along the road to Ullapool , are the Knocknan cliffs , another famous Assynt limestone outcrop , and where the Moine Thrust , a geological feature , can be clearly seen . |
| 16 | ‘ So for the same weekly payments any council tenant can start along the road to ownership . |
| 17 | ‘ Christ , they were quick off the mark , Piper , ’ remarked the driver , swinging the jeep round and heading back along the road to Brigade H.Q. Nos. 3 and 6 Commando were pulling out as we entered the village ; no sign of 45 Royal Marine Commando . |
| 18 | Even more interesting was the fact that over 300 cars were parked at the Park and Ride facility at Harman 's Cross which obviously reduced the level of traffic along the road to Swanage by that amount . |
| 19 | Wealthy families were already seeking more desirable surroundings beyond the walls , particularly in the western suburb that stretched all along the road to Westminster . |
| 20 | Progress along the road to Theory Y is all that is realistically possible . |
| 21 | The Haynes Publishing Group continued along the road to recovery in the six months to end-November 1992 . |
| 22 | BUSINESS services group BET has taken another stride along the road to recovery by slashing its annual loss . |
| 23 | If you had n't stopped to give me a lift this morning , I 'd still be shuffling along the road to Tangiers . ’ |
| 24 | Thus , although non-Muslim monotheists , like the Christians and the Jews , had not travelled as far along the road to truth as the Muslims , they were travelling in the same direction . |
| 25 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 26 | Anyway , being in the fortunate position to be able to drive along the road to Corrour , although my car suspension did n't agree it was so fortunate , a companion and I set off for the first peak , Beinn Eibhinn from halfway along the road , above the river Ghuilbinn . |
| 27 | Thus his first action on returning to the Questura the day before had been to send his inspectors out to question the people living in the houses along the road to Cannara and talk to the local farmers , just in case anyone had seen anything . |
| 28 | Forest envisage the return of Webb , who left them in a Pounds 1.5 million deal three years ago , as a crucial step along the road to safety . |
| 29 | Entitled To Advance Further Along the Road to Perestroika , Gorbachev 's address began with the assertion that there had been a " revolutionary stride " in all spheres of life since he first announced perestroika in April 1985 . |
| 30 | Gabriel obeyed at once , and while riding along was thinking so hard about the shooting that in the darkness he failed to notice a man walking along the road to Casterbridge . |