Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Would he would he ever stop and down on the way or something like you know overnight ? |
| 4 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he 'd call in on the way home . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps they 'll call in on the way home , ’ she said wistfully . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Er , I 've got er , I 've almost abso three quarters promised to go and call on some friends in on the way through |
| 16 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 17 | I recall Hamish in one of his writings saying that as he walked along on the way to his next objective he was reading a paperback novel — how more blinkered than that can you get ! ? |
| 18 | We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car . |
| 19 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 20 | For most Americans , it is simply what they fly over on the way to either coast . |
| 21 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 22 | Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ? |
| 23 | I 'm surprised you did n't fall over on the way here . ’ |
| 24 | I used to rub it off on the way to school . |
| 25 | My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ At the house — he dropped me off on the way . |
| 28 | ‘ But we did stop off on the way for a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 29 | BR hopes they 'll drop their kids off on the way to work . |
| 30 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |