Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the road " in BNC.

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1 Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous .
2 On one occasion the job went wrong , the huge barrel slipped from the ramp , split and best beer gushed from about half-way down the side on to the road and sped down the gutter .
3 The teddies were shouting , chivvying and bullying them off the pavement on to the road .
4 Only if registered and paid up as road running clubs will they be able to elect officials on to the Road Running Commission .
5 Aggie turned a scornful glance on Ben , then pushed the cart through the gateway on to the road .
6 During the ten months the siege was to last , Richard 's road gangs were said to have shovelled nearly three-quarters of a million tons of metal on to the road .
7 I read with some concern that a housing development planned for the Valley is to disgorge its traffic on to the Road near the Hill Lane Lane crossroads .
8 And nowhere else till the village , three too-far-miles on down the road .
9 As the car screeched to a halt , Joe 's body slid from the bonnet on to the road .
10 The young man ran across the goods yard and eventually found the gate on to the road .
11 All three hurried round the side of the house and issued through the gates on to the road .
12 It was touch-and-go whether she could reach the pram before it either overturned or leapt from the rocky wall at the foot of the bank on to the road , along which traffic was speeding in both directions .
13 A figure darted from his cover on to the road .
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