Example sentences of "on the [noun] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT LEAST one man was killed and five British tourists were among 14 people injured when a man threw a bomb at a tour bus on the road to the Pyramids in Cairo today . |
| 2 | Tomdoun , once a staging post on the road to the Isles but cruelly bypassed by the new road , is the last outpost , the road continuing and coming alongside the enlarged Loch Quoich where an isolated clump of rhododendrons is all that remains of Glenquoich Lodge . |
| 3 | All three options will also require quarterly reports on the company to the employees , and prior consultation with the workforce on decisions relevant to them . |
| 4 | And stop worrying , I wo n't reveal my views on the drug to the twins . |
| 5 | Spiderglass treated her well on the trip to the spiders of Earth but that was no compensation for ripping her out of her own charmed cocoon . |
| 6 | It was reflected in the expressions used by some members of the RUC ( ‘ OK , let's hit the streets and do it to them before they do it to us ’ , ‘ This is where the law stops and I take over , sucker ’ , the reference to probationary police as ‘ rookies ’ and to bullets as ‘ slugs ’ ) , their dress ( mirror sunglasses , blue jeans , and white T-shirt , sometimes with the Miami-Vice parallel reinforced by the words being printed on the T-shirt ) , and other ephemera ( the engraving of ‘ San Quentin' on the keys to the cells , jumping through the enquiry room window rather than using the door ) . |
| 7 | Those dealing with the replies do not want to have to keep getting on the phone to the PROs concerned . |
| 8 | Fiona told us on the way to the races that the police had phoned Harry to say they 'd found his car in the station car park at Reading . |
| 9 | Kettlewell and Taylor escaped unhurt after the accident outside Middleham on the way to the races . |
| 10 | I saw her on the way to the doctors and she 'd thought she 'd got chicken pox . |
| 11 | For the most part they worked underground with their fathers or other relatives , and , in contrast with the lot of the pauper apprentice , child labour underground for all its burdens and dangers was a first step on the way to the ranks of the hewers . |
| 12 | I mean I remember when I went , first went to my cheap caravan site where there is n't a toilet and you have to walk to the toilets , and I remember a couple of times when I was little , shitting my pants on the way to the toilets , you know , cos I could n't hold it in . |
| 13 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 14 | By doing so you 'll not only find a copy of the best C64 games mag in the known universe on your doormat every month , you 'll also be able to avoid all those nasty lager-swilling thugs on the way to the shops . |
| 15 | I am sure lots of people who were approached by pollsters had similarly sincere intentions : but a funny thing happened to them , too , on the way to the polls . |
| 16 | You are scared to pass me on the way to the stairs ? ’ he grated . |
| 17 | The molecular weight markers on the left apply to the amplifications of human DNA and those on the right to the amplifications of schistosome DNA . |
| 18 | It was held that the brothers " were the architects of an arrangement within the definition of s437 " ( now TA 1988 , s663 ) ( Vinelott J at p685 ) thus , when dividends were paid on the shares to the children that was income arising from a transaction which had the necessary element of bounty and the income was taxed upon the settlor ( as the children were minors ) . |
| 19 | After the artificial light in the interview-room , the late afternoon sun shining directly on the entrance to the police station was like a physical blow to the eyes that tapped a gush of protective tears . |
| 20 | She walked quickly along the landing to the bathroom , knocking on the doors to the children 's rooms as she went . |
| 21 | I sped again on the bus to the races and found that overnight Assiniboia Downs had sprouted all the ballyhoo of Woodbine , T-shirt stalls , banners and besashed bosoms Support Canadian Racing included . |
| 22 | But this book contains much more than an exposition on the background to the Children Act and an explanation of the principles on which it is founded . |
| 23 | The man who , more than any other , provoked and personified that revolt was Karl Barth ( 1886 — 1968 ) ; and the book which , as one critic put it , ‘ fell like a bomb on the playground of the theologians ’ , was his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans , first published in 1918 , when its then virtually unknown author was pastor of Safenwil in his native Switzerland . |
| 24 | The feasting for the day of Christ 's resurrection painted bright patches of colour on the faces of the men ; their voices rose , their limbs spread , they called out compliments on the food to the women who made it ; Davide 's uncle praised Nunzia to her father , singling out her good humour , comparing it favourably to his own wife 's melancholy , to which she in her turn , hearing herself commented upon , tossed her head , and set her jaw . |
| 25 | He kept one eye on the entrances to the Operations Room . |
| 26 | ‘ Reading out various grim warnings on the Autocue to the natives about the way things are going . |