Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] way to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crash happened as Ontong , a Glamorgan player for 15 seasons , and Steve Barwick , his team-mate , were on the way to a Championship game in Essex 14 months ago . |
| 2 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
| 3 | Not like when you were on the way to the knacker 's — that was different , was n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | As soon as one set of questions were on the way to being answered , others seemed to take their place . |
| 5 | I mean th th th th they were on the way to military security , but were they going , they , they , they recognized they had to carry the population with them . |
| 6 | ‘ Is your sister expecting you at a specific time ? ’ asked Penry when they were on the way to Haverfordwest at last . |
| 7 | It came to have Connolly 's support and was on the way to becoming thoroughly nationalist and republican under Connolly 's influence . |
| 8 | But in England the financial department was on the way to becoming a formal institution . |
| 9 | MORE rain was on the way to much of Britain yesterday just hours after parts of Scotland and northern England finished clearing up after floods and snowfalls . |
| 10 | Len Hutton was on the way to a win against India on his birthday on June 23 , 1952 , the first time an England birthday captain had been on the winning side , and A.E.R . |
| 11 | Ironically , he was on the way to a full recovery when he choked on a curry bone at acting chairman , Mr Pahdra Singh 's , restaurant . |
| 12 | Oldknow seems to have had in mind a great combined enterprise , with 1,000 factory workers and 1,000 weavers , and was on the way to becoming one of England 's greatest cotton lords , to rank with the Peels , Arkwrights , and Strutts . |
| 13 | It was suggested that a head who tried to do everything was on the way to an early grave ( Torrington and Weightman 1991:6 ) . |
| 14 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 15 | In this respect again , diplomacy , if not yet clearly a distinct profession , was on the way to becoming one . |
| 16 | No , it was on the way to erm on the way to Earthenburg that the garage just before Earthenburg , last one on the |
| 17 | That 's sa surprise cos I was on the way to Hull oh yes ! |