Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford Crown Court has jailed two men after hearing how drug squad detectives tracked them down during a trip to London . |
| 2 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 3 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 4 | They were preparing to check in for a flight to Tokyo . |
| 5 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 6 | The book was an elaboration of the idea in the original article along with a reply to critics , foremost of whom had been Bukharin . |
| 7 | Yawl ran an excellent Oaks trial in Wednesday 's Tripleprint Lupe Stakes at Goodwood , rallying bravely to go down by a head to Gisarne . |
| 8 | Nights , sometimes , Anton would cycle over for a visit to Rab , to play chequers . |
| 9 | The problem arose again thirty years later , when their energies were channelled off on a crusade which ended in defeat at Nicopolis in 1396 , and yet again in 1444–5 when , after the truce of Tours , the ‘ Ecorcheurs ’ who were , as their name implied , ‘ skinning ’ France , were led off for a while to Switzerland and the imperial lands . |
| 10 | Mr Yeltsin secured the required number of votes in his third attempt in four days , just as President Gorbachov flew off for a visit to Canada prior to his summit with President Bush in America . |
| 11 | First of all you started off with a reference to P P G twelve , and I fear my pen was n't fast enough to note down the paragraph number , perhaps you could remind me ? |
| 12 | Mr Major met Mr Michael Fallon , the Darlington candidate , and Mr Nick Jopling , who is fighting the Sedgefield seat , before being swept off in a cavalcade to Yarm . |
| 13 | And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . |
| 14 | Lots of fun and excitement as Henry 's Cat sets off on a trip to Treasure Island |
| 15 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 16 | Then he packed them off on a plane to Islamabad to meet the president . |
| 17 | Two friends from the paras — one an ex-member of the Irish Rangers , the other a deserter from the French Foreign Legion — were saving up for a trip to South Africa where they intended to join the South African Army . |
| 18 | The Tigers boycotted elections in November last year for the North-Eastern Provincial Council , the new body set up as a compromise to demands for self-rule , saying that it did not fulfil the aspirations of the Tamil people . |
| 19 | But he emphasised that he would not put himself up as a challenger to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | He went up as a commoner to Wadham College , Oxford , in 1858 , and took fourth-class honours in law and modern history in 1862 . |
| 21 | Six months later , in September , I followed this up with a circular to health authorities requiring them to put their services out to tender . |
| 22 | If deterrence really is the name of the game , then , so it would seem , the missiles that NATO already deploys in submarines add up to a threat to soviet cities and centres of industry that is more than sufficient . |
| 23 | The first speech leads up to a toast to bride and groom , the most important people of the day . |
| 24 | Dividends are up by a quarter to 11.4p , after a final of 7½p payable on May 27 , with earnings growing in line to 54½p . |
| 25 | We 're actually at the moment the the the brief , the focus is to actually on what we , look at what we would send out as a report to parents . |
| 26 | The move will be seen as a further step towards a possible post-election deal between Labour and the Liberal Democrats , who are holding out for a commitment to PR for the Commons as a pre-condition of backing a minority government . |
| 27 | A figure popped out of a doorway to Alexei 's left , and he cut at it with his sword and ran on . |
| 28 | CHRIS KAMARA is set to be priced out of a move to Sheffield United . |
| 29 | The colt is out of a half-sister to Milligram , who is out of the 1,000 Guineas winner One in a Million . |
| 30 | These pads have been laid out like a C to C octave on a keyboard , with the lower row of pads as the white notes and the upper row the black ones . |