Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] road to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low , brooding barns .
2 But to me , then , that seemed the road to insanity … or worse .
3 No French troops troubled the road to Mons ; it seemed that the Belgian countryside slept under its summer heat .
4 For while the Berkeley geomagnetists walked the road to Jaramillo other scientists had travelled there on the power of imagination .
5 As acting professor of history at the University College of the West Indies ( 1954 ) he began The Road to Self-Rule ( 1959 ) .
6 He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh .
7 That was in 1984 , a year before Charlton hit the road to Selhurst and Upton Parks , and two years before Walsh signed on and decided to live in SE7 , because : ‘ I was promised we would be moving home to our own ground and wanted to live amongst fans dying to get back . ’
8 Wexford crossed the road to Grover 's newspaper shop and turned into York Street .
9 The republican state was undermined by the right wing counter reforms which eased the road to violence .
10 It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold .
11 He roused and saddled a snoring Philomel and took the road to London Bridge .
12 who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story .
13 As he took the road to Bridgwater with John Chester , something essential to his happiness remained behind him , both in the rich and various landscape which so closely mirrored the landscape of his mind , and in the generous steadying friendship of Tom Poole .
14 He and his men took the road to Verdun .
15 Ruth left Palma and took the road to Valldemosa .
16 For certain it is that she did leave your enclave with my men , and with them took the road to Ramsey .
17 Martin O'Neill , the party 's defence spokesman , said the road to arms control now lay through the process of negotiation .
18 He had the roads to Ruthyn and Denbigh under his eye from this eyrie , and Mold was not too far for a raid if the weather and the omens were good ; but since his active autumn of last year he had contented himself with holding and consolidating , and swooped down in the occasional raid along the border only to keep his hand in for greater things if the season should indicate the necessity .
19 From their smiles it appeared that the Corporal was a regular there , as he obviously travelled the road to Boulogne often .
20 A Protestant , who is regularly described now as ‘ a charismatic ’ , Karla Fohrbeck underwent a Road to Damascus conversion immediately before taking up office .
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