Example sentences of "on his [noun sg] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter , on his way home to Shropshire from London , also narrowly missed death . |
| 2 | The reviews were not entirely dismissive , but Hardy remembered only the harsh comments in the Spectator , read ‘ as he sat on a stile leading to the eweleaze he had to cross on his way home to Bockhampton . |
| 3 | On his way home to Brest , sailing north-about round Ireland , Jones confirmed his reputation as a maritime Robin Hood by releasing , with a new sail and money in their pockets , some Irish fishermen he had captured , but his arrival back in port , on 8 May 1778 , proved a disappointment , for the French failed to give him the hero 's welcome he had expected . |
| 4 | On his way home to Philibert Place one day , Marco wanders through an alley to waste ground where a hunchbacked boy pushing himself on a makeshift trolley is reading to his ragged companions from a newspaper — about Samavia . |
| 5 | His work has taken him by car to all parts of this wide and pictorially exciting area , and I suspect that lie has carried a notebook with him and jotted down impressions of darkening moors and sunset skies on his way home to Long Preston . |