Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 3 | He had driven home slowly and stopped twice on the way at the Hollybush at Newark and at the Merrie England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | It seemed well on the way to revival , with the balance-of-payments surplus rising to £1,000 m. in 1978 and the pound , now a petro-currency , rising to not far short of $2 on the foreign exchange . |
| 7 | Although Franco seemed well on the way to having Hedilla in his pocket in late October , Falangist support for merging with the Traditionalists was not yet guaranteed . |
| 8 | 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 ! ? |
| 9 | Nobody talked much on the way out . |
| 10 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know . |
| 13 | Positive responses , very much in the minority in Phase 3 , therefore , focused mainly on the way PNP appointees freed heads and senior staff for managerial tasks and facilitated classroom collaborative activities , especially TTT . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That morning , the Gaelic voices rose and fell excitedly on the way back from the burn as the three women talked of the news their husbands brought — news of a new born baby on the other side of the island or a death on a neighbouring isle . |
| 16 | The plot fell apart on the way . |
| 17 | Dexter parked the car next to the first telephone kiosk they chanced across on the way back to Reading . |
| 18 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 19 | Schwer saw his unbeaten record slip away on cuts , although Burke fought splendidly on the way to an upset victory . |
| 20 | Neither of them said much on the way . |
| 21 | In fact nobody said much on the way back . |
| 22 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 23 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 24 | The tow rope snapped twice on the way and was getting shorter and shorter before we eventually got to Darlington . |