Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to [noun prp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounds strange but at Easter I went to Paris for the weekend . |
| 2 | I went to Oslo for the Bislet Games , one of the world 's top athletics meetings with the stands always packed and the crowd highly knowledgeable — a tremendous atmosphere . |
| 3 | With this in mind I travelled to Woburn for the Superstars ' Celebrity Challenge . |
| 4 | NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open . |
| 5 | Cantona , who flew to Paris for the top-rated chat show Sacree Soiree after his United debut in Lisbon on Tuesday , added : ‘ I am fit and I enjoyed myself in the opener against Benfica . |
| 6 | ‘ You went to Paris for the funeral , did n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 8 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | October 28th 1962 had a double significance for tram enthusiasts , who flocked to Blackpool for the last rites : Marton was the last all-street tramway in Britain . |
| 10 | President Alan Garcia Pérez , who apologised to Pease for the incident , was reported to have accepted Mantilla 's resignation . |
| 11 | It began in April 1820 , when we came to Haworth for the first time … |
| 12 | We went to Ireland for the summer and our visit there was great fun ; Brian and I drove about in a donkey-cart , fished for eels , and shot rabbits with a 410 . |
| 13 | He would be back in the first week of July and at home all month until they went to Scotland for the opening of the grouse shooting season on the twelfth . |
| 14 | Then he moved to Bordeaux for the winter , before returning to Orléans and Paris . |
| 15 | Before 1869 , there was no Institution in England and Wales ( nor for that matter , in Scotland ) where deaf children of Roman Catholics could be educated in their own faith , and when a Belgian priest , Monsignore de Haerne , a deputy in the Belgian Senate , learnt of this , he came to Britain for the purpose of establishing one . |
| 16 | But Mosley campaigned in Tuscany by phone and by the time he returned to London for the autumn , the plan was set , letters were going out and Balestre was in for a surprise . |
| 17 | He returned to Syria for the first time in July 1992 to attend the funeral of his mother . |
| 18 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 19 | Sir John Menzies was part of that , by his marriage to Atholl 's daughter , and Atholl dined and intrigued with the Lord Advocate when he went to Edinburgh for the season . |
| 20 | He advised the committee on imperial defence , was sent out to Petrograd as deputy to Viscount Milner [ q.v. ] at the Allied conference in 1917 , and in 1929 he went to Versailles for the committee of experts reviewing the Dawes plan for German reparations . |
| 21 | He travelled to Macroom for the match with tea and sandwiches . |
| 22 | They take a three nil lead to Swansea for the second leg of their first round tie . |