Example sentences of "on his [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 2 | On his promotion to district geologist in 1902 , he became formally the leader of that group . |
| 3 | In other words , McCreery would be seeing the commanding officers in 6 Armoured Division who on 19 May had expressed disquiet over the Yugoslav repatriations , as had been reported by Maj Mennell on his return to Division HQ . |
| 4 | John of Marmoutier tells the legend that Geoffrey le Bel dressed up as a rustic and listened to complaints about his prévôts ’ rapacity ; on his return to court , he paid back the sums they had extorted , and threatened them with death if they continued to defraud the peasantry . |
| 5 | On his return to duty , and the award of a DSO , he was ordered to Bomber Command where Harris confirmed that he was to command the Pathfinder Force . |
| 6 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 7 | He confesses that he killed a man on board the space ship and so would have been tried on his return to Earth . |
| 8 | And , that being the case , she supposed she just had to hope that , having been insulted so thoroughly , Count Romano de Sciorto would renege on his promise to Mother , and strike her off his guest-list for the whole duration of her stay in Malta … |
| 9 | Her father was up and was on his way to bed . |
| 10 | At home in Northumberland long ago , there had been a painting by Sickert whose poignancy and brilliance had stopped him nightly on his way to bed . |
| 11 | Jake , she thought idly , on his way to bed . |
| 12 | It had never occurred to her that he 'd have been on his way to bed . |
| 13 | The figure was a boy , dressed in clean white shorts and T-shirt , looking like an Italian child on his way to church . |
| 14 | He died 28 September 1651 , while on his way to church in Hornchurch , Essex , leaving a widow and a daughter . |
| 15 | Certain it is , if he had more than three-score armed men with him , he was not on his way to church ! |
| 16 | It was then that Mr Murray , on his way to work , ran to my assistance . |
| 17 | The husband , Dennis , shuddering in the cold on his way to work , on his way to watch the night , forgets . |
| 18 | Some years ago , er , my husband was on his way to work and he was involved in a car crash . |
| 19 | John Coffin , on his way to work , stopped at the delicatessen to buy one of their warm ham rolls , then took it into Cat 's Coffee Shop to eat with a cup of the best Kenya . |
| 20 | A kindly lorry driver on his way to North Wales , chatting of his own daughter and his home , had dropped her at the roundabout at the top of the Banbury Road at about lunch-time . |
| 21 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 22 | On 6 July 1988 , Buadilio Aguilar Dardón , an 18-year-old secondary school student in Guatemala City was detained on his way to school . |
| 23 | Lance Rees was set on as he passed the sorting office in Withernsea , Humberside , on his way to school . |
| 24 | ( When on his way to school , the writer was once asked to change seats ! ) |
| 25 | He used to look out for them on his way to school and on his way home in the evenings . |
| 26 | ( 9 ) John was on his way to school . |
| 27 | Someone was on his way to school . |
| 28 | From the other side of the road , Aziz the janitor , on his way to school , a sinister smile on his face , started to wave his mop in greeting . |
| 29 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
| 30 | A 16-year-old youth is in hospital with serious head injuries after an accident as he was on his way to school . |