Example sentences of "[conj] on [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | If donations were taken at a service , they were left at the door either on the way in or on the way out . |
| 2 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 3 | Unsurprisingly , most deaths from VSA were in hospital or on the way to hospital ( 47% ) , and causes of death were recorded as direct toxic effects ( 49.2% ) , inhalation of vomit ( 14.8% ) , trauma — eg , hanging or drowning ( 11.5% ) , suffocation inside a plastic bag ( 7.4% ) , and ‘ other/not known ’ ( 17.2% ) . |
| 4 | ‘ On the way up to Luxor or on the way back ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Except on the way back . |
| 6 | When he stood Godfather in Fowey , custom demanded that on the way to the christening he should carry the traditional cake and offer it to the first person he saw . |
| 7 | He decided that on the way he would take a look at the nearby clump of trees from which the eerie sounds had drifted during the night . |
| 8 | I do n't like heroes , so I was pleased to find that on the way up to Gorffwysfa Norman fussed and worried as anyone might when faced with the return to climbing after a long break . |
| 9 | ‘ Show me the house , ’ said the Greek , ‘ and if it should happen that on the way we meet a sweet-seller … ’ |
| 10 | I forgot to say that on the way to the hot springs we stopped at a neolithic site where they have excavated and reconstructed the life of the people living there 6,000 years ago . |
| 11 | Then she said she felt happy enough to skip the Ecstasy experiment and , instead , to have an early night , so I refused to talk to her for the rest of the meal — rightly , I think — and on the way home I walked stiffly three yards ahead of her . |
| 12 | Well , I went off on holiday to Switzerland and on the way back I suddenly thought : Oh my God , what have I done ? |
| 13 | Within the schools , the Bilingual Education Project has created curricular materials such as Gaelic nursery rhymes and songs , cards , picture books with Gaelic tests , photographic sequences reflecting the communities in which the children are growing up and materials for young mothers aimed at informing and guiding them on issues related to the quality of playgroup experience , including books on children 's play , book-making materials and equipment and films on playgroup organisation and on the way young children learn . |
| 14 | Warehouses were soon liberally festooned with bombs , and on the way out a number of parked fuel-tanker lorries were attended to . |
| 15 | ‘ But the only way we can find that out will be to go and look at this mistletoe , and on the way you can tell me more about Miss Miggs . ’ |
| 16 | However , it was as a goalscorer that Mel gained an undisputed niche in Palace 's history as the scorer of our first-ever goal in Division One , when his fine , dipping header put us into the lead and on the way to a 2–2 draw with Manchester United on the opening day of season 1969–70 . |
| 17 | John Pemberton was Palace 's genial and gutsy full-back throughout our promotion drive to Division one in 1988–89 and then in The Eagles ' progress to the FA Cup Final and Replay of' 1990 Indeed , his surging run in the semi-final against Liverpool at Villa Park , which took him past several defender s , before he delivered the cross from which Mark Bright put the Palace on terms and on the way to our stunning victory , will probably remain for ever in the memories of those who saw it , even though he impressed enormously in the two Cup Finals against Manchester United 's sophisticated and costly imports . |
| 18 | After the show they would stroll back to their apartments and on the way visit the drugstores for a sarsaparilla or an ice cream soda . |
| 19 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 20 | This time , the person who is ‘ it ’ says ‘ I sent a letter to my friend and on the way I lost it . |
| 21 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 22 | Go downstairs to buy a pizza , and on the way back up to the room there 's a short , familiar figure in the lift . |
| 23 | Hugh of Lincoln died in London in November 1200 and on the way back to Lincoln the funeral procession passed through Stamford . |
| 24 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 25 | But he bore no malice , and on the way back to the hotel gave me quite a run-down on his cousin Ena , who he said had once been Queen of Spain . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , and on the way , ’ she added quickly , ‘ do n't forget to pick up that bowl of cawl , all right ? ’ |
| 27 | Meredith Jones was a great talker and on the way back home from the youth club he |
| 28 | So we drove up the Llanberis Pass and on the way conceived the unoriginal compromise idea of a Snowdon Horseshoe circuit . |
| 29 | In Britain the opposite was the case , and on the way home I noticed daffodils in bloom and even cherry blossom in sheltered gardens in England . |
| 30 | Berkshire 's outlet was Reading , situated on the Kennet just above its confluence with the Thames , and on the way to becoming a major river-port , forwarding malt and meal to London , to which Great Marlow shipped Chiltern corn brought down from High Wycombe . |