Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 2 | In a less than perfect world it is inevitable that government authorities will sometimes act illegally , and there may be a lot to be said for bringing the ‘ loss distribution ’ insights of modern tort theory to bear on the way we perceive public law compensation . |
| 3 | Psychological alienation provides Such with a narrative pretext for bringing the theories of post-Einsteinian science to bear on the way we conceive of ourselves as individuals in relation to other people . |
| 4 | I want you to concentrate on the way the rooms themselves bring about certain kinds of behaviour . |
| 5 | I mean I think I 'd like to comment on the way some of the discussion was going earlier , because although it 's true that it 's largely men who are seen as creating the problem , there are certainly large numbers of men in positions of authority in the university who are very concerned about it , and who have been led to re-examine their own behaviour , and who now comment on how uncomfortable and constrained they themselves feel . |
| 6 | We used to have to pass on the way to school we used to pa pass a bakehouse , Bakehouse , in Road . |
| 7 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 8 | He also struck him when Sweeney tried to escape on the way to the Bridewell . |
| 9 | Well we had to discuss on the way home in the car that it would be better to have parish council meetings during the day rather than the evening . |
| 10 | In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes — but I have something to do on the way . |
| 12 | The magazines were heavy , and Bobbie stopped to rest on the way home . |
| 13 | Do n't be too long , and try not to dawdle on the way there and back . |
| 14 | A beat that sets out for a destination may have to renavigate on the way or may even have to change destination . |
| 15 | well no , but not on , to town , but there might be somewhere they want to go on the way |
| 16 | My binoculars I wore round my neck at the ready for all those puffins , razor bills and guillemots I expected to see on the way over . |
| 17 | I needed independence and freedom to respond on the way I wanted to go , ’ he says . |
| 18 | When they were ripe , Nick and I used to pick some to eat on the way . |
| 19 | ‘ Did you manage to get anything to eat on the way ? ’ |
| 20 | What have we got to get on the way home ? |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , now that I do not have to stop on the way to Paris for lunch I can go later . |
| 22 | The Friendship Store is in the downtown area , and so we had a chance to stop on the way at the Tien An Men Gate ( the famous gate providing an entrance to the forbidden city ) , and Tien An Men Square , Peking 's equivalent of Trafalgar Square , except that it is about 20 times as big , and contains about one-twentieth of the traffic . |
| 23 | He imagines the sequence of states which he will have to construct on the way to supper . |