Example sentences of "[vb past] a visit to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the last article I promised a visit to Wales , to see whether the same geometric patterns existed in that part of the country . |
| 2 | Dedicated kite flyers had been aware of the Sanjo Rokkaku for ages , largely through Tal Streeter 's excellent book The Art of the Japanese Kite ( Weatherhill , New York 1974 ) in which he vividly described a visit to Toranosuke Watanabe , the Shirone kite maker who specialised , as did generations of his family before him , in making these hexagonal Rokkaku fighters . |
| 3 | To make the point , he described a visit to a Toyota assembly line where they had developed the Kamba or Just in Time system . |
| 4 | In what was widely seen as an attempt to give its efforts to improve relations with other countries greater domestic and international credibility , the Albanian government hosted a visit to Tirana by the Secretary-General of the United Nations , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on May 11-13 , when held talks with Alia and other senior officials and also visited other parts of the country . |
| 5 | At the press conference , Waldegrave recalled a visit to a UK university , where he had noted a visitors ' book full of Japanese names . |
| 6 | Billy McNeill , who was working at last night 's game for television , recalled a visit to Canada when he was invited to watch Toronto Blizzard . |
| 7 | Its only legacy will be the widespread attraction the store held for millions of day-trippers who based a visit to Liverpool around a trip to Owen Owen 's . |
| 8 | French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas postponed a visit to Syria planned for mid-December , prompting Syrian criticism of France 's Middle East policy . |
| 9 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
| 10 | The chief stylist at General Motors , Harvey Earl , paid a visit to an air force base where , seeing the new twin-tailed fighters , he was inspired to ‘ intuit ’ the automobile shape of the future — twin tail fins . |
| 11 | Shortly after reading the play she paid a visit to the poet . |
| 12 | IN MARCH 1853 THE EARL OF MALMESBURY , recently Foreign Secretary in the cabinet of Lord Derby , paid a visit to Paris in a private capacity . |
| 13 | The first hint that things were not really changing for the better came in 1945 when , according to Damiani , two Palestinian Jews paid a visit to his father . |
| 14 | Before leaving , we paid a visit to the Volunteers in the Peace Camp . |
| 15 | We first fished the South-west in the early 1960s when Ann and I paid a visit to Carsfad Reservoir , near New Galloway . |
| 16 | One day , we paid a visit to Blackpool , where my cousins took me , much against my wishes , on a water chute . |
| 17 | George Healey , as a young man in the early 1860s , paid a visit to London where he learnt of church services for the deaf conducted by the Revs . |
| 18 | Then one day , just for old times ' sake , I paid a visit to Winston Street . |
| 19 | On recovering her composure , and shaking off the shock effect of the terrible news , she paid a visit to the pawnbroker and pawned her wedding-ring . |
| 20 | Towards the end of her life she paid a visit to Lourdes and , despite her suffering , she was greatly comforted by this experience . |
| 21 | The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts . |
| 22 | These visits to New Southgate were , of course , reciprocated as the grandchildren paid a visit to Granny in Freegrove Road ; stopping off at Beale 's on Holloway Road for chocolate fingers on the way — a great treat — they would go to the side entrance of no. 17 and ring the bell . |
| 23 | Geoffrey and others went off to play golf , while Moira and I paid a visit to Mr Campbell 's celebrated tweed shop at Beauly . |
| 24 | Immediately after this unfortunate incident Fleischmann and Pons paid a visit to Jones on the morning of Thursday 23 February to see what his experiment was producing . |
| 25 | Hollywood was awash with rumours some months later when Banderas came to Los Angeles for Mambo Kings , paid a visit to Madonna 's house and was spotted dining with her on several occasions . |
| 26 | A general inspector of the Ministry of Health paid a visit to the hospital and submitted his report which was considered by the Area Guardians Committee in December 1945 : |
| 27 | Sometimes he went to West Hampstead and paid a visit to the School , to the commune , and enjoyed it very much and thought how much he would like to live there himself . |
| 28 | Nu was drawn strongly to the Chinese struggle against Japan and paid a visit to China under KMT auspices . |
| 29 | He paid a visit to India to attend the Inter-Asian Conference . |
| 30 | Whereupon , records the historian of the Shipping Federation , " Havelock Wilson paid a visit to the Tyne and announced publicly that if " the Association was prepared to recognise the union he would register it forthwith " . |