Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
| 2 | The Broomielaw Quay was enlarged as years went by and after the arrival of steamships , created and born on this very river , the quays on the north bank were completed past Finnieston and down to Mavisbank by the 1880s . |
| 3 | We shouted ourselves first-class to Leeds , drank in the lounge of one of better hotels until match time , and strolled down to Headingley in a biting wind , Eastern Australian writers and film makers . |
| 4 | And then down to Ivrigar on the second night . ’ |
| 5 | Thought we might go down to Grafton for the Old Boys ’ match against the first XI . |
| 6 | I am great fan of tennis , especially women 's tennis and a couple of weeks ago I went down to Brighton to the semi-final matches of the Midland Bank Indoor Championships . |
| 7 | I travelled down to Gateshead for the big meeting there , Great Britain versus the Commonwealth , and was witness to one of the most amazing come-backs in British sprinting history made by , who else , that old war-horse Allan Wells . |
| 8 | Today , they will inevitably go 2-0 down to India in the three-match series . |
| 9 | As a result , there is an unbroken strand of social liberal philosophy from Hobhouse , Professor of Sociology at the LSE from 1903 to 1929 , through Ginsberg ( 1929 – 54 ) , down to Marshall in the immediate post-war period . |
| 10 | The dignified way he handled the tragedy of his father being gunned down in Bangkok impressed everyone and , although he went 7–0 down to White in the British Open final , he still had the bottle to capture seven frames before losing 10–7 . |
| 11 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 12 | It had to be lifted off the track each night to prevent possible vandalism which could have seen it trundling down to Staveley on the falling grade ! |
| 13 | This evening after dinner you might wish to take the train ( 20 minutes ) in to Amsterdam for an exhilarating evening in what is undoubtedly Europe 's most surprising city . |
| 14 | A few years ago , they went in to Europe with the deliberate aim of sabotaging any tough ban on cigarette advertising , and any insistance on tough medical warnings of the kind that appear today . |
| 15 | And this is on the bus going in to Clearwater on the free trolley as they call it . |
| 16 | From the moment it was obvious that the Schlieffen Plan had failed and that Imperial Germany was not to sweep through to Paris in a brief , punitive , conflict , the Great War became one of grinding attrition . |
| 17 | Also if you 're moving through to Wardington on the 361 , resurfacing again has left some temporary traffic lights , that 's just to the north of Banbury there , between in fact Banbury and the Daventry road . |
| 18 | Quintus Fabius Maximus , who punished the Tarentines for going over to Hannibal during the Second Punic War , found the colossal bronze Zeus , the work of the famous sculptor Lysippus , too difficult to transport to Rome . |
| 19 | But some enterprising sponsor could do worse than bring him over to Scotland before the Scottish Championships and the World Championship trials in Birmingham in July . |
| 20 | ‘ There was nothing confidential about it : it was a bright idea some Americans had for setting up training courses — that sort of thing — for their businessmen and other people coming over to Britain for the first time . |
| 21 | It is extremely probable that it was one of the many plants brought over to Britain by the Roman occupationary army to remind the legionaries , while they shivered in the damp foggy cold , of the warmth and dryness they had left behind at home . |
| 22 | Kildare , which has been handed over to Paul by the Irish Government for his famous Hole in the Wall Gang charity . |
| 23 | It 's like asking Gadhafi over to Washington for a cosy chat . ’ |
| 24 | In 1978 , I went over to France for the final day of the parliamentary elections , expecting to stay up for most of the night as one would in the UK . |
| 25 | Forresters first was after a ball dinked over to White on the right hand side of the box ( facing goal ) , he hooked it over his shoulder — square to about the pen spot and forrester did a flying scissor-kick/volley which flew into the net . |
| 26 | DARLINGTON Sixth Form student Paul Walker is off to Japan for a two week all-expenses paid trip . |
| 27 | I thought : That 's it — he 's off to London to the bright lights and that 'll be the end of us . ’ ’ |
| 28 | After two more miles , formerly lined with yellow flag iris but now destroyed by ‘ improvements ’ , a side road branches off to Killilan along the beautiful banks of Loch Long . |
| 29 | WE 'RE off to Paris for the richest race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Sunday October 4 . |
| 30 | while Hereford are off to Torquay with a full strength squad … |