Example sentences of "the [adj] journey to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than make the risky journey to Scone , James III was crowned in Kelso abbey near Roxburgh . |
| 2 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 3 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 4 | During the brief journey to Brewer Street , Denice tells us that she enjoyed the film , particularly the surreal portrait of the afterlife . |
| 5 | Many hundreds of Londoners have moved out into the central south region , opting for a cheaper home at the cost of the long journey to work . |
| 6 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 7 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 8 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 9 | Saddest export a convoy of lorries begins the long journey to China and , inset , the furnace as it used to be at the height of production Picture : VIC CLEVELEY |
| 10 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 11 | And in doing so she has proved herself a mightier force than the Palace propaganda machine , which suggested that she might not attend because she was too old and frail to make the long journey to Crathie Church . |
| 12 | Where possible the ore , as has been mentioned , was hand dressed in preparation for the long journey to Keswick . |
| 13 | Shortly before the fateful journey to Greece he begins to be overcome once again by the same sensation . |
| 14 | The short journey to Raasay proved vivid . |
| 15 | Fairfax calls a waiter and orders the memsahib 's car to be made ready for the short journey to Warthog Manor , her solid but decrepit stone house . |
| 16 | THE DOMESTIC cricket year gets off to its time-honoured start tomorrow with the 1991 county champions Essex making the short journey to Lord 's for the campaign 's curtain-raiser . |
| 17 | There are a few discos , but if you fancy something more sophisticated , hop on a train for the short journey to Kitzbuhel . |
| 18 | In spite of all Diana 's effort it was badly crushed in the short journey to St Paul 's . |
| 19 | She followed him on to the train for the short journey to Bruges . |
| 20 | The new Vigilant lost no time in making her mark when in June 1966 the Queen , after formally opening the new east wing of the London Custom House ( restored after wartime bombing ) embarked on the Vigilant at Custom House Quay for the short journey to Westminster Pier . |
| 21 | In Jaffa harbour , the Damianis boarded the Italian passenger cruise ship Argentina , a comfortable vessel which would take the family on the 16-hour journey to Beirut port . |
| 22 | The scenic journey to Karolinka takes you through some beautiful mountainous countryside . |
| 23 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 24 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 25 | The coach departed from Clun at 8 a.m. for the four-hour journey to Minehead , the terminus of the West Somerset and indeed of the original branch line whose closure in 1971 led to the formation of the preserved railway which is so successful today . |
| 26 | Reluctantly , Lucy had packed a small suitcase and had driven the four-hour journey to Hastings , a city situated in the centre of the fertile Heretuanga plains of Hawke 's Bay , where fruit and vegetables grew in abundance . |
| 27 | Of the seventy-eight clergy whom he ordained , fifty-three had to make the difficult journey to Pelynt for their ordination , either at Trelawne or in the parish church , while in his last seven years as Bishop , only twice did he travel to Exeter for an ordination . |