Example sentences of "on the [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON THE TRUCK TO CHINCHERO |
| 2 | I had only to make it to Dover and then I could sleep on the ferry to France . |
| 3 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 4 | His Canadian passport was beautifully forged and had brought him effortlessly into the Republic of Ireland and thence on the ferry to England . |
| 5 | Shelley Marn , a Californian student on holiday in Europe , is travelling on the ferry to Spain , when she meets a young English couple , Clare and Nick Harman . |
| 6 | The loudly heralded Tartan Terror on the road to Wembley failed to show up yesterday . |
| 7 | Anything can happen on the road to Wembley . |
| 8 | Swindon Town are hoping it 'll put them on the road to Wembley . |
| 9 | When you 're on the road to Wembley there 's always a song and a new suit … for the fans … |
| 10 | ‘ I ask myself every hour now if we might not have held him and still drawn off well enough if I had but kept a better watch on the road to Shrewsbury . |
| 11 | But Sam on the road to Mordor goes beyond both . |
| 12 | The loan , it must be emphasized , was seen as a step on the road to Britain 's restoration as a power of the first rank . |
| 13 | Groups travel north by coach and stay at Dunolly House , an outdoor centre at the western end of town on the road to Loch Tay . |
| 14 | Well , not that bad really , but they 'd laden a van in London bound for Torquay , and managed to overfill it somewhat , so that when membership services executive Kevin Ramage ( driver ) and conference executive Meryl Halls ( navigator ) were stopped on the road to Torquay and instructed by the police to proceed to the nearest weighbridge , they were found to be in contravention of the law . |
| 15 | Haymo receiving news of this and hearing the commotion sent word to the Archbishop for further news , but found that the worthy Primate had left with his attendants and was well on the road to Kent . |
| 16 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
| 17 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 18 | At the same time , a number of leading liberal church leaders in Northern Ireland became involved in negotiations with the IRA to establish a cease-fire.s Thus the conservative Protestant critic of the ecumenical movement can equate ecumenism and terrorism and , given that the ecumenical movement is on the road to Rome , Rome can be equated with the IRA . |
| 19 | I had almost daily visions of a cathartic kind , with the total and even religious intensity of those experienced by Paul on the road to Damascus — an unfortunate comparison ! |
| 20 | ‘ Like Saul on the road to Damascus , ’ Leo said . |
| 21 | Deep learning , on the other hand , is the kind you take with you through the rest of your life : like Paul of Tarsus 's conversion on the road to Damascus , or the kind of insights vouchsafed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau when he fell asleep under his tree of knowledge . |
| 22 | The change came suddenly : ‘ I always think it was like St Paul on the road to Damascus . |
| 23 | You can trace those through the Bible ; Moses saw the Glory of God — His brightness ; Psalms refers to the Temple , where the splendour of God is to be found ; the shepherds were surrounded by the brightness of God 's Glory , and so was Paul on the road to Damascus . |
| 24 | When I listen to him now , gung-ho for Delorsism , I can only reflect that Saul on the road to Damascus was nothing compared to Neil on the autoroute to Brussels . |
| 25 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 26 | On the road to Woodstock and Bicester lies Woodgreen , an 18th. century residential suburb . |
| 27 | Rounded off the evening at the world 's most civilised truckstop , called the Va-cherie ( think about it ) on the road to Morgex , where we let it all settle in front of cognac and a roaring fire until Gioachino braved the juggernaut slalom back to Courmayeur . |
| 28 | The Gold Award Winners DRIVING HAULIERS ON THE ROAD TO TQM |
| 29 | About 165 they erected monuments to their martyred apostles , to Peter in a necropolis on the Vatican Hill , to Paul on the road to Ostia , at the traditional sites of their burial . |
| 30 | ENGLAND 'S PLACE ON THE ROAD TO ITALY ENGLAND need a point to ensure a place in the World Cup finals alongside Italy ( the hosts ) , Argentina ( holders ) , Yugoslavia ( winners of European Group Five ) , Brazil and Uruguay ( winners of their South American groups ) and Costa Rica ( from the Concacaf Group ) . |