Example sentences of "on [pos pn] way [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over many cups of tea , he succeeded in convincing some of them that I was an English traveller on my way to visit the Amoita in Aussa . |
| 2 | Power for Inchbrook Mill came from the Nailsworth Stream , but the little Stream itself rises in the lakes of the Woodchester Valley and originally powered three mills on its way to join the Nailsworth Stream . |
| 3 | The stream , on its way to join the River Ure , has its origins on Abbotside Common and passes through the small hidden village of Cotterdale , a community unseen and unsuspected from the main road , the only access to it branching off as a gated strip of tarmac . |
| 4 | Two quiet roads lead up to the head of the village ; between them , still bubbling with excitement after a remarkable journey from the depths of Gaping Gill , is Clapham Beck , fringed by trees and crossed by five bridges , on its way to join the River Wenning . |
| 5 | Before returning , a look down into the tremendous ravine of Ling Gill below the bridge will reveal a most impressive scene , the beck hurrying along a bouldery bed fringed by trees and cliffs on its way to join the Ribble ; several minor caves have been found and explored along its banks but the rough terrain is a deterrent to walkers who prefer to travel sedately . |
| 6 | Luck , however , was not there when the bridal car broke down on its way to collect the bride . |
| 7 | With lavish indiscretion the stream was at one point crossed by the baby bridge and , fifty yards further , went underground on its way to feed the sliver of still water called " The Lake " . |
| 8 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 9 | Marian made a bed of dry bracken for Hugh while Allen lit a fire and fetched water from a brook that ran at the foot of the bank on its way to swell the nightmare of the Swamp . |
| 10 | Deciding it was right , she left it to swing lightly between her breasts as she sprayed herself with Dune , the new Christian Dior fragrance , on her way to answer the doorbell . |
| 11 | The girl sister Chiang arrives at the wharf at Chungking on her way to rejoin the rebels in the N. of the province , and is met by a communist agent who is rather foppish in his behaviour , and later turns out to be , not surprisingly , a renegade . |
| 12 | But on her way to catch the bus to Bodelwyddan little Harriet , from Bryn-y-Baal , near Mold , lost her favourite cuddly toy Winnie the Pooh . |
| 13 | On arrival at Sefton Park , we were transported by bus to Church Street , as the late King and Queen would pass through on their way to open the Gladstone Dock . |
| 14 | More shells are passing over our heads on their way to blast the enemy positions , than are coming our way . |
| 15 | The Crown claim that all three were on their way to plant the bomb under a car . |
| 16 | But now , at last , they had reached Olbia harbour and , leaving the car in the car park , were on their way to meet the ferry . |
| 17 | They pass a group of boys , a jangling procession , on their way to wash the temple bells in the stream — their annual cleansing and consecration . |
| 18 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 19 | He was killed by an axe blow to the base of his skull as he walked through woods to the railway station in the settlement of Semkhoz on his way to conduct the early morning service at his church in the nearby village of Novaya Derevnya . |
| 20 | ‘ Marler was on his way to see the chief on Dartmoor . |
| 21 | One day , on his way to do the ploughing , he met a man who 'd just come back from the south and had passed several flocks of sheep on the other side of Chhakuri Lekh . |
| 22 | The husband , Dennis , shuddering in the cold on his way to work , on his way to watch the night , forgets . |
| 23 | A senior French detective is on his way to question the man , a spokesman said . ’ |
| 24 | He was there when MacMillan made his famous ‘ Winds of Change ’ speech and recalls being on the same Dakota plane to Sierra Leone as the Foreign Secretary , who was on his way to grant the former colony independence . |
| 25 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 26 | And , on his way to meet the Prime Minister , Mr Delors bumped his head on the car waiting for him at Heathrow . |
| 27 | Geoff is on his way to marry the rich Dorothy , to pay off his debts … . |
| 28 | While having his horse shod , Nisbet told John Morton that , with George Woodburn , he was on his way to assist the Covenanters , and persuaded the blacksmith to join them . |
| 29 | Can I say finally Chairman , that I will be instigating a er a request er I shall be requesting I should say perhaps to the director of education that erm the three party spokesman on the management committee and all those officers who will be involved in implementing this decision will get together at the earliest and I 'm citing possibly next week so that we can be on our way to plan the next step forward to a concrete implementation of this particular proposal . |
| 30 | When we passed it , on our way to inspect the gravel pits , the big hand was on twelve and the little hand was on four . |