Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] to [noun] " 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 | This presumably posed a risk to airline uniforms ; was likely to distract passengers ( the male ones at any rate ) at a time when they should have been paying attention to the cabin staff for rather different reasons ; and carried the ultimate danger of the implant exploding . |
| 4 | He said he only drove the car to Darlington to sell it . |
| 5 | 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, not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 6 | She only sent the jacket to spite me . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IN A quiz published this week in TODAY and based on the popular TV show Have I Got News For You , we wrongly attributed the programme to Channel Four . |
| 9 | The evidence of history , not to mention the physical evidence of those land deeds , suggested a subject of legitimate journalistic inquiry : who legally as well as morally had the right to ownership of the property ? |
| 10 | From their smiles it appeared that the Corporal was a regular there , as he obviously travelled the road to Boulogne often . |
| 11 | In Matabeleland , the conflict between the government and dissidents between 1982 and 1987 effectively condemned the region to years of not only destruction and deaths , but also to general neglect . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The eight-month- old girl was so ill that she only just survived the flight to England . |
| 14 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 15 | Vicomte Bernard de la Giraudière , Chairman of Laurent-Perrier International , started this award in France , where it proved most successful for several years , before they generously brought the idea to England . |
| 16 | Mr Yeltsin meanwhile sent a message to John Major expressing his gratitude for the Prime Minister 's support and understanding . |
| 17 | ‘ I already sent a message to Mrs Ogata asking her to resume the aid as soon as possible , ’ the secretary general said . |
| 18 | But it was E.J. Urwick who most aptly summarized the approach to youth work : |
| 19 | ’ But you just cancelled the course to Fraxilly ! ’ |
| 20 | I finally ran a copy to earth , with some difficulty , at Penguin 's own bookshop in Covent Garden , and telephone enquiries to a selection of London 's larger booksellers indicated that two out of three had at least one copy on their shelves . |
| 21 | When Austria finally despatched an ultimatum to St Petersburg on 16/28 December 1855 , the need to make peace looked overwhelming . |
| 22 | ‘ No , I just wanted the key to father 's studio . ’ |
| 23 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 24 | NEXT , which a year ago reported one of the biggest losses ever by a British retailer , yesterday announced a return to dividends and provided the hardest evidence yet that the troubles of recent years are behind it . |
| 25 | From its inception in April 1864 , George Healey was Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Society for over 50 years , and still found the energy to back James Paul in his efforts to establish a national society . |
| 26 | Bernice quickly moved the medkit to Cheryl 's side . |
| 27 | He promptly referred the caller to Southampton based Royal Scottish Consultant John Buckland who called in Danny to help set the wheels in motion . |
| 28 | HUNKY Hawk may have muscles bigger than his baby 's head — but tiny Tyrus still reduced the Gladiator to tears . |
| 29 | Since 1213 when King John tactically surrendered the kingdom to Pope Innocent III and received it back as a fief held of the papacy , the English crown had owed the pope an annual tribute of a thousand marks ( £666 6/ 8d ) . |
| 30 | The leadership formally reaffirmed a commitment to socialism , but accepted criticisms of its own past authoritarian practices , and criticized the lifestyles of some comrades which had " contrasted with the difficult conditions the majority of our people faced " . |