Example sentences of "[adv] on [art] way " in BNC.

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1 I should have thought up something better on the way over , but no one could think in that wind .
2 Nobody talked much on the way out .
3 Neither of them said much on the way .
4 Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task .
5 ‘ I do n't suppose you had time to see much on the way here ? ’
6 In fact nobody said much on the way back .
7 Will my hon. Friend congratulate Trafford area health authority and everyone involved in the hospitals there on the excellent job that they are doing and especially on the way in which they have brought down waiting lists ?
8 The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich .
9 The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time .
10 Would he would he ever stop and down on the way or something like you know overnight ?
11 Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know .
12 ‘ I thought you came fast enough on the way here . ’
13 Can I just come back Chair , and I recognize obviously there is er , further work that 's going on with this and support that it does , but there is a case with the Parliamentary Ombudsman in discipline on this at the moment , so on the way in which it 's been handled by the Ministry .
14 and erm we u had a boat on the Nile and the police came with us on camels and another barge with the servants and er so on the way er we made marmalade and all sorts of things to fill in time .
15 And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . "
16 Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty .
17 Anna Adams had no illusions about the decline of Scarp , ‘ When the artists move in on a way of life , that way of life is picturesquely anachronistic and in decay ’ , but it seems that a taste for tragedy only augments the awareness of beauty .
18 The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects which range from McDonalds to the Gulf War , taking in on the way a whole range of everyday tragedies :
19 Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work .
20 ‘ He said he 'd call in on the way home . ’
21 ‘ Perhaps they 'll call in on the way home , ’ she said wistfully .
22 Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny .
23 When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back .
24 Erm , I wondered if I should ask her if she 's going to the chinese tomorrow if she wants to drop in on the way home .
25 And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ?
26 Er , I 've got er , I 've almost abso three quarters promised to go and call on some friends in on the way through
27 Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho
28 A subject 's performance on an experimental task may depend not only on the way which he encodes the stimuli but also on the strategy he adopts in carrying out the task .
29 The amount of erosion of any rock cliff will depend not only on the way in which the waves break against the cliff but also on the size of the waves .
30 This control depends crucially on the way in which they perceive the world including the alternatives to the use of force which they can comprehend and accept .
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