Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun prp] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was probably always nipping down to Underwoods for a few grams of thallium . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's like asking Gadhafi over to Washington for a cosy chat . ’ |
| 7 | DARLINGTON Sixth Form student Paul Walker is off to Japan for a two week all-expenses paid trip . |
| 8 | while Hereford are off to Torquay with a full strength squad … |
| 9 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 10 | By 1673 , he thought that too many of his supporters were being exposed to danger by his presence so he went off to Ireland for a cooling-down period . |
| 11 | They might receive only one or two small gifts , or even none , or — worst of all — could find themselves carried off to Spain for a whole year ! |
| 12 | It seems they are then off to Birmingham for a Dire Straits concert . |
| 13 | In the dark old days rugby tours never went further than the west country or Wales … but times are changing fast as the sport gets more professional … you have to think big time now to win matches and survive in the first division … that 's why Gloucester 's new full-time director Barrie Corless and coach Keith Richardson took the players off to Italy for a two match tour |
| 14 | When he had fallen asleep , Aurangzeb quietly chained up his brother in silver fetters and sent him off to Delhi in a covered elephant howdah . |
| 15 | A scientist who got his pilots ' licence just last week is off to Indonesia on an extraordinary mission . |
| 16 | Welcome back.A scientist who got his pilots ' licence just last week is off to Indonesia on an extraordinary mission . |
| 17 | And then she could go off to Australia with a real crime on her conscience . |
| 18 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
| 19 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
| 20 | As the monk studied God 's Word he would frequently find his heart lifting itself up to God for a few brief but intense moments . |
| 21 | In June he went up to Leeds for a three-week holiday : the air of the Yorkshire moors always did him good , and there were in the vicinity a doctor , an oculist and a radiologist to examine him periodically . |
| 22 | Near the station of the cable railway which takes you up to Gabulowka for a lovely view across the town , there are Russians and other traders selling bric a brac in the open market . |
| 23 | If one of his deans or canons had written it in a Meditation he would have read it out to Bob in a mock-clerical voice , and deleted it , snarling . |
| 24 | I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one . |
| 25 | We released it in Britain as well because we thought copies would be imported back to Britain at an inflated price for the British collector , ’ Gedge told Scene And Heard fanzine . |
| 26 | The princess flew back to Britain as an ordinary passenger aboard a British Airways scheduled flight . |
| 27 | After sentence had been passed he had been taken to the cells , then back to Dalston in a black van . |
| 28 | The baby was strong enough to go back to Riverstown with a monthly nurse after six weeks and he was duly baptized a Protestant in the Church of Ireland in Naas . |
| 29 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |
| 30 | Nigel moved into Polly 's £750,000 luxury home in Kensington but then went back to Carolyn in a last attempt to save his marriage . |