Example sentences of "on [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " 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 | ‘ At about ten o'clock on May 20th , ’ he began , ‘ a man driving a petrol tanker on the north to south highway of Stowerton by-pass saw a car overturned and in flames on the fast lane of the south to north track . |
| 7 | Most turnpiking was done on the north to south roads , although some cross-country in-filling occurred later ; they were less new roads than improvements on old ones , designed particularly to ease the movements of goods and the aristocracy to their country estates . |
| 8 | The loudly heralded Tartan Terror on the road to Wembley failed to show up yesterday . |
| 9 | Anything can happen on the road to Wembley . |
| 10 | Swindon Town are hoping it 'll put them on the road to Wembley . |
| 11 | When you 're on the road to Wembley there 's always a song and a new suit … for the fans … |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | But Sam on the road to Mordor goes beyond both . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They thought about distribution , and Harris went to see Brian Moore whose Moore-Harness operation had put Private Eye on the road to money . |
| 16 | With provincial officials acting in such an enthusiastic manner , the country was once more on the road to chaos . |
| 17 | The teacher in the next example has supplied just enough information to start Jonathon on the road to discovery . |
| 18 | Faced with the need to take some action , and willing to restrict the death penalty but not to abandon it completely , a classic step on the road to abolition , the Government turned again to the idea of categorizing murders which the Labour Government had attempted , fruitlessly , as a way out of a previous Parliamentary impasse in 1948 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For him , the art world is one small path on the road to superstardom . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The sale of Fort Ross in California in 1841 marked a well-defined stage on the road to withdrawal . |
| 27 | At 40 , he knows he 's on the road to fortune and admits to spending more time talking with journalists than working over hot ovens in the kitchen . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | ‘ Like Saul on the road to Damascus , ’ Leo said . |
| 30 | 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 . |