Example sentences of "[pers pn] on the way " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'll see you on the way back . ’
2 ‘ Are you on the way up to join them ? ’
3 PS Will call and see you on the way back if you 've got no battles lined up .
4 ‘ I 'll tell you on the way home .
5 He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way .
6 " Are you on the way to metalwork ? "
7 With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory .
8 As Ted 's star began to wane , John became the Palace 's leading scorer , to set them on the way to higher things and immediately topped our scoring chart again in our first season in Division Two , 1921–22 .
9 But Ramsay might meet them on the way .
10 In the spadefoot , the intense competition among males for females means that some over-anxious males do not wait for the females to get into the pond but instead waylay them on the way to the breeding ground ; the pair then arrive at the pond already in amplexus .
11 ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over .
12 I pass a great variety of them on the way to school and I myself actually live , work and play in some of them .
13 From talking to them on the way home and talking to Ted Heath 's G P , who we also had a long discussion with , without doubt there are other people there who obviously simply refuse to let come home , who are just as serious and , from the sound of it , one or two perhaps even more serious than the ones we did bring home .
14 ‘ I work two , maybe three , nights a week , ’ she tells me on the way to the flat she shares professionally with Barbara .
15 Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely .
16 The walk that defeated me on the way up seemed to take about five minutes coming down , and despite the forced cheery countenance of my friends , I knew I had ruined the day .
17 ‘ I think I will ride pillion on the way out , but I reckon it 'll be the sidecar for me on the way back . ’
18 He never troubled me again — in fact , he even used to say good morning to me on the way to school .
19 Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre .
20 Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint .
21 You are scared to pass me on the way to the stairs ? ’ he grated .
22 As a matter of fact , one of the men from Scotland Yard , a very nice inspector , told me on the way out that the whole thing was a waste of time as far as he was concerned .
23 Well you 'd better get in , you can tell me on the way up .
24 anyway to me on the way out , oh I really enjoyed that and we were crying our eyes out .
25 You know what he told me on the way home ?
26 There was an old woman on sitting opposite me on the way home and she had two big I was looking and looking These are not real .
27 she , she said to me on the way o , er as I was I said look I 'm going to scoot now and she said well I hope you do n't get any unwanted company on the way back .
28 He collected her as soon as they had both tidied their offices , McLeish maliciously enjoying Davidson 's obvious chagrin as they said good-night to him on the way out .
29 He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist .
30 We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime .
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