Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or right back to the day she married Steve , or took the boat to England ? |
| 2 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 3 | He continued to the outskirts of town and through the gates that led the half-mile to Destayala . |
| 4 | But to me , then , that seemed the road to insanity … or worse . |
| 5 | Assuming 5 p.c. inflation that boosted the pension to £29,867 a year . ’ |
| 6 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
| 7 | Few people in Polruan knew much about what went on behind the big iron gates that guarded the entrance to Roscarrock Hall , because Sir Gregory had taken the prudent step of making his household almost self-sufficient , and traders were seldom required to call . |
| 8 | He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh . |
| 9 | As she drove home by all the familiar back roads that shortened the distance to Kileady , the shopping euphoria dropped down into black anxiety . |
| 10 | In the Dreamflight tradition , the crew of the British Airways jumbo that took the group to America were specially chosen for their affinity with children . |
| 11 | It was her canonisation that brought the town to prominence and attracted pilgrims from all over Europe to her shrine . |
| 12 | State Department publications have been purged of references to CIA actions like setting up the coup that brought the Shah to power in Iran , and overthrowing a liberal government in Guatemala . |
| 13 | Regina della Scala , who built the church that gave the name to La Scala and was the wife of Bernabo , is also buried here . |
| 14 | I left the road halfway between the Cotterdale Road end and Hardraw and walked with Bill the dog and Eddie the landlord from the Sun in Dent along to the signpost that pointed the way to Cotter Force . |
| 15 | Pushing a renegade curl from his forehead , he divested the boot of our luggage and led the way to reception , where we said goodbye to Sandy , the lady driver . |
| 16 | The young child familiar with the nursery rhyme : The Man in the Moon Came down too soon And asked the way to Norwich sees a jovial face . |
| 17 | The path turned inland and met the road to Sandweg which cut through arable land , punctuated by low , brooding barns . |
| 18 | While serving as ambassador at the court of St James Sancy 's brother sold the stone to James I. When James II fled to France he took refuge at St Germain and sold the stone to Louis XIV . |
| 19 | Both are built in Japan , though the Lynx was designed in California by Epyx , a software house which ran out of development funds and sold the product to Atari . |
| 20 | Later the family ran into financial difficulties and sold the property to Sir William Scott of Harden , whose direct descendant was the young Walter Scott . |
| 21 | His stepfather quickly summoned a lawyer from Liskeard and sold the estate to John Trelawney , Francis Buller and Sir William Mohan . |
| 22 | The customer did not pay his instalments under the hire-purchase agreement and sold the van to X , an innocent purchaser . |
| 23 | It was painted purple with the company name in white and made the journey to London twice weekly . |
| 24 | Milton laughed and passed the poem to Pooley . |
| 25 | Common decided to discontinue further experiments because of the trouble and cost and passed the patterns to Thomas Brown and his son , iron-founders of Alnwick , who emigrated to New York State with them in 1824 . |
| 26 | Burgon winded his way through the Bangor defence and passed the ball to Minnis whose shot was well saved by Brown . |
| 27 | Miss Calagarri then signed and passed the document to Mr. Morgan . |
| 28 | Absently he squeezed more insulating oil on to his fingers and passed the tube to Jezrael . |
| 29 | When he 'd finished he wiped his mouth and passed the jar to Joseph . |
| 30 | He then spent another three hours combining the ingredients in his kitchen while his wife Kate dressed the dining table and got the children to bed . |