Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The second paragraph goes on about the report to council Environmental Services Committee by the District Chief .
2 He found another vessel whose captain ( a Scot ) was prepared to sign him on for the voyage to New York .
3 Maurice was deserted , Maurice having been invited , as he quite often was , to go down for the day to Brighton .
4 Sara suddenly understood why James might have been brought along for the week-end to Moorlake .
5 He was heading for the North Sea coast , which he would cross near Terschelling then follow for a while before turning in for the approach to Aalborg .
6 come down with the stairs to chap , young chap , I told you he 's knocking on the door , it must of been then .
7 ‘ I do n't know , ’ Ellie denied numbly as she recognised the note Gramps had put in with the package to Mrs McMahon .
8 NOW that the Zooropa extravaganza has passed by along with the Trip to Tipp , Slane and various other festivals , it 's back to bread and butter fare for promoters .
9 Then , in gathering darkness , drop down from the ridge to Dore Head , where a steep descent leads rapidly back to the security of the valley for that welcome pint at the Wasdale Head Inn .
10 Fearfully , Seb drew closer and could see her dress had been ripped down from the neck to waist .
11 He had been in radio contact with Delaney during the latter 's journey down from the MOD to Brize Norton .
12 Yes , worried folk were coming along from the Tower to Billingsgate , some carrying a few possessions .
13 Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ .
14 Yeah , Dan 's car broke down on the way to Birmingham you know .
15 The story goes that their car broke down on the way to Larne , and they had to hitch a ride to get to the boat on time .
16 She put the telephone receiver down on the invitation to lunch with a quiet face , but an excited heart .
17 They came down on the Pennines to Alston before joining the A66 and heading East for Scotch Corner .
18 As the crews launched their rafts at Hay-on Wye on Saturday , ahead lay a 100-mile long journey down to the river to Chepstow .
19 The line went from Munday 's Hill Pit down to the Leighton to Hatfield line ( L.N.W.R. )
20 The crew decided to go in by the entrance to Fingal 's cave .
21 Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’
22 Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak .
23 We 're passing through on the way to Manchester and we 've been to your surgery they said you were out this way … described your car .
24 Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ?
25 At Kingsdale I stopped by the road and had a bite to eat before striking off up the fell to Whernside , following the wall that leads upwards towards the summit .
26 Next day we were off in the train to Bath .
27 But , in the early days of production on the site , an order sent off from the mill to London was accidentally read and returned as tweed .
28 No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range .
29 lets hope old Syd is back bowling very soon … we 're off on the trail to South America now for one of the most demanding and torturous sporting trials of all …
30 I used to rub it off on the way to school .
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