Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF THE TRAUMA and problems involving the Great Warbirds Air Display ( GWAD ) from its established site at West Malling in Kent to Wroughton in Wiltshire were not enough , Elly Sallingboe , her airshow team and all the pilots involved in the show had to contend with low cloud , torrential rain and wind that gusted up to 65 knots on the first day of the show . |
| 2 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 3 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 4 | The charges stem from P&G 's David-and-Goliath dispute over TV adverts placed by Neighbor to Neighbor , a grassroots pressure group campaigning for a boycott of coffee from El Salvador . |
| 5 | ‘ When ICL moved from Stoke to West Gorton in Manchester , I became a commuter and I did n't like it , ’ he says . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's time we left for the NEC , ’ Myra said , her eyes darting from Claudia to Roman and back again . |
| 7 | Michel Garretta , director of the National Blood Transfusion Centre , and his chief assistant , Jean-Pierre Allain , were each sentenced on Oct. 23 to four years in prison for knowingly distributing blood contaminated with HIV to haemophiliacs [ see p. 38978 ] . |
| 8 | The Dunfords moved from Petersfield to Alton in 1940 . |
| 9 | Although the butler 's face registered nothing , his eyes flickered from Lee to Katherine and back to Lee . |
| 10 | I represent approximately 288 members of EESA within branches ranging from Carlisle to Blackpool . |
| 11 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 12 | Doreen became agitated , her voice rising to a higher pitch as her eyes darted from Silas to Lucy . |
| 13 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 14 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 15 | Barak 's eyes shifted from Laidlaw to Graham . |
| 16 | The company says the stuff automates moving from Macs to PCs to Suns despite the fact they all use different character sets to create their on-screen texts . |
| 17 | What nonsense is this about a double bed ? ’ he demanded , his eyes switching from Doreen to Lucy . |
| 18 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 19 | Forty vintage aircraft flying from London to Australia ! |
| 20 | Ly Tong , a former South Vietnamese air force pilot who had lived in the USA since the end of the Vietnam War , hijacked an aircraft flying from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City on Sept. 4 . |
| 21 | At present , a multinational company can not run just one fund for all its staff ; an employee moving from Britain to Spain has to join a different fund . |
| 22 | The Diesel Cashback Programme running from April to August 1993 is expected to boost this growing share still further , offering Clio Diesel buyers a cheque equivalent to the fuel costs of more than 10,000 miles motoring . |
| 23 | Some of the facts and figures connected with the 500 metre-long structure are mind-boggling — 65,000 tonnes of steelwork , 220,000 tonnes of concrete [ enough to fill a queue of cement mixers stretching from London to Manchester ] , 1,800 miles of electrical and instrument cable and enough pipework to stretch from Sellafield to London . |
| 24 | The first words spoken by God to Abraham were loud with blessing . |
| 25 | The first words spoken by God to creatures of his making in Genesis 1 were words of blessing . |
| 26 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 27 | His keen eyes went from Thomas to Ralf . |
| 28 | The trips run from Friday to Monday and are scheduled to depart on 12 June , and 16 October ‘ 92 . |
| 29 | Butler intriguingly proposes the mass items as a keyboard pendant to the B minor Missa sent by Bach to August III of Saxony in July 1733 . |
| 30 | The Guidelines issued by SCOTVEC to panel members explained that the main purpose of a validation event was not to scrutinise in detail the documentation but rather to use the information provided to enable an informed discussion about the proposal to take place . |