Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She could have gone to friends , or just driven up to London , ’ Fraser defended himself . |
| 2 | For example , people working here in acoustics and radiation physics never know which SERC committee will finally examine their applications — some of our recent applications have been to the committees for Biology , Chemistry , Chemical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Polymer Engineering , the joint SERC/SSRC committee or even sent off to ARC . |
| 3 | The thirty-year rundown of the Great Central Railway terminus at Marylebone ( a prelude to seemingly inevitable total closure ) , was dramatically slammed into reverse gear on 30 April when BR admitted blossoming Chiltern Line services could not possibly be handled by Paddington , Euston , or even handed over to London Transport . |
| 4 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |
| 5 | He would have to show all this new treasure-trove to Blackadder , who would be both elated and grumpy , who would anyway be pleased that it was locked away in Safe 5 and not spirited away to Robert Dale Owen University in Harmony City , with so much else . |
| 6 | He stayed in Moscow for two months before he returned to St. Petersburg and soon sailed back to Scotland . |
| 7 | He took his time ; first cutting the cigar , then heating its tip with a succession of matches that he carelessly and provocatively dropped on to Wavebreaker 's scrubbed deck . |
| 8 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 9 | They lived initially in Vila Victoria , near to and belonging to Reid 's , and then moved up to Quinta Gordon ( also known as Quinta de Monte ) , in Monte at the invitation of the owner , Luis da Rocha Machado . |
| 10 | After breaking the windows , enraged by the early departure of the guests , the mob set fire to two meeting places and then moved on to Priestley 's house . |
| 11 | To stake out part of his frontier he had spent Christmas 842 with Abbot Hugh at St-Quentin , and then moved on to Valenciennes . |
| 12 | Led by Geoff Miller as Botham was attending Viv Richards ' wedding — to which fifty people were invited and two thousand turned up — they beat the Leeward Islands and then moved on to Antigua for the inaugural Test at St John 's , West Indies ' first new Test ground since the opening series of 1929–30 . |
| 13 | ‘ Good evening , Conrad , ’ Philippa said as she came into the room and bestowed a kiss on his bald patch , saint blessing sinner , and then called out to Larry whom she had seen going in as she walked up the hill with her offerings . |
| 14 | Carbamyl valine thus released immediately and quantitatively converted spontaneously to VH , which was extracted and quantitated by high-performance liquid chromatography . |