Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] on the way " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 , it was his Foreign Secretary , Viscount Castlereagh , who was the butt of Shelley 's philippic : ‘ I met Murder on the way , He had a mask like Castlereagh . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We can buy food on the way down . ’ |
| 3 | We will eat lunch on the way . ’ |
| 4 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |
| 5 | If you will see Donna on the way out , she will let you know when your appointments are . ’ |
| 6 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 7 | The purpose of this research project is to obtain presently lacking information on the way of life , social structure and ideology of a Bantu-speaking people called Lungu who live around the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in East-Central Africa . |
| 8 | In its concluding section , it pays particular attention to the very issues raised by Reid above and offers advice on the way forward . |
| 9 | ‘ I think I will ride pillion on the way out , but I reckon it 'll be the sidecar for me on the way back . ’ |
| 10 | No , Claire was going but she had , did n't have time on the way back |
| 11 | Finally a man arrived with a horse , to take the waggon on to Casterbridge to deliver the beehives , and then collect Prince on the way back . |
| 12 | The central aim is to shed light on the way problems are conceptualised and how political possibilities inherent in the changing situation are perceived and promoted . |
| 13 | The aim is to document evidence on the way journalists make their daily decisions on what is news , on the events to which to give prominence , and on the treatment and presentation of those events . |
| 14 | The PROFITBOSS learns from every crisis , taking profit on the way . |
| 15 | In August 1846 he walked from Preston to the World 's Temperance Convention in London , preaching teetotalism on the way . |
| 16 | As George and I were ‘ the guards ’ we saw that all children were supervised and that all passed muster on the way in . |
| 17 | By contrast , the radical position has interpreted control as suppression , and has focussed attention on the ways in which lawyers appropriate the right to know what their clients need . |
| 18 | He would try and remember to post it in the Sandyford Toll Receiving House on the way back , if nothing else intervened . |
| 19 | Transactional analysis ( TA ) is the name given to a number of related concepts that seek to throw light on the way people behave and feel . |
| 20 | Major believes recovery on the way |