Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eric was going to do a trip around the world when he left Mayall , which eventually became a trip to Greece . |
| 2 | But the peasant plaintiffs in the Mitry case presumably made the journey to Compiègne believing they might win . |
| 3 | I put the mink coat on a chair and retraced my journey , locking the door again and eventually returning the key to Mercer who nodded without speech and put it in his pocket . |
| 4 | Eventually I felt strong enough to write the truth to Margaret . |
| 5 | Someone had thoughtfully turned the page to March and now the glossy colour photograph showed the Riot Squad drawn up in full battle gear in front of their armoured personnel carriers . |
| 6 | Anne felt a stab of pain , although she told herself that she was not interested in John Redmond any more , yet eagerly accepted an invitation to Sunday tea from Sarah . |
| 7 | Rhodesia had long presented an affront to Ghana and other Black African states , yet Nkrumah still valued the Commonwealth connection sufficiently to support Britain 's compromise proposals . |
| 8 | The Convention not only transferred the Crown to William and Mary , but also laid down certain terms for the new rulers in the document known as the Declaration of Rights , and if the offer of the Crown was not strictly speaking conditional upon William and Mary 's acceptance of these terms , it was clear that everyone expected that they were to abide by them . |
| 9 | He said he only drove the car to Darlington to sell it . |
| 10 | So ends the introduction to Douglas 's prose memoir of that battle and its aftermath , Alamein to Zem Zem . |
| 11 | She 's only to give an envelope to Louise . |
| 12 | De Discreptione Animae Spiritus et Mentis , Mediaeval Studies , vol. xxii , 1960 , pp. 148–9 ( which wrongly attributes the treatise to Gilbert of Poitiers ) ; J. Châtillon ( ed . ) , |
| 13 | The nominee of the more reformist social democratic faction , Georgi Pirinski , not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 14 | Later that day — the 26th — Hitler was still in command of his mental state sufficiently to send a telegram to Mussolini demanding a precise list of what he needed , but after that he almost snapped . |
| 15 | Why do you not go to a provincial university meantime , and perhaps win a scholarship to Oxford from there ? |
| 16 | But Malcolm suddenly gave the job to Chrissie instead Because , I suppose , she was older and more rock ‘ n ’ roll with her leather jackets , whereas I was still at school and pretty straight . |
| 17 | From their smiles it appeared that the Corporal was a regular there , as he obviously travelled the road to Boulogne often . |
| 18 | Luckily , 21-year-old Emma , was well enough to make the trip to St. Bart 's on Monday morning by train , said Lyn , — but a few months ago the situation would have been completely different . |
| 19 | One of these , Bernard Levin , memorably described a visit to Evita as " one ofthe most disagreeable evenings I have ever spent in my life , in or out of the theatre " , and " Do n't cry for me , Argentina " as a somewhat inferior melody to one he would hear as a boy , improvised on the saxophone by a busker outside the Albert Hall with only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 20 | Seb should have been overjoyed at the news that Anna was not to marry the educated young gipsy , but he knew that unless Boz explained it to her — preferably in a more diplomatic way than the manner with which he had just broken the news to Seb — she would be devastated . |
| 21 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 22 | The delay in publication of the original book would probably have been much longer had Medvedev not given the manuscript to Andrei Sakharov to read in October 1988 . |
| 23 | The events described had already formed the backdrop to Guinness I , and two unfinished sequels . |
| 24 | ‘ I understand , ’ he said anxiously , ‘ that Roy has already received a summons to Downing Street . |
| 25 | The left-hander just avoided a caught-and-bowled to Malcolm 's left hand , but when Gooch brought Salisbury on , this time at the Nursery end , and pitching into the legside rough , he spun one right across Salim Malik to have him caught at gully . |
| 26 | Or maybe , rather than a total replay , just award the Cup to England due to Campese 's blatant obstruction on Underwood just as he was about to tackle Horan . |
| 27 | The publicity given to the award-winning designs must have helped to establish the popularity of the Second Empire style for certain buildings in Britain and the United States in the 1860s and 1870s , but it did not introduce the style to Britain . |
| 28 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 29 | SCO already has a licence to SunSoft Inc 's ONC+ and says it 'll deliver that on its latest Open Desktop and Server 3.0 software well before the COSE version comes along . |
| 30 | She put in an offer to the oily estate agent and just caught a train to London , which was lucky , for there was not another for two hours . |