Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Village communities anywhere are notoriously conservative , so when two young cyclists wandered in to the Gasthof Löwen with shoulder-length hair and matching headbands , they received some doubtful glances from the table where five farm-workers sat steadily drinking their way through the evening . |
| 2 | Lorryloads of blooms rolled up to the Bel Air mansion where Liz , 60 , lay in bed , surrounded by her doctors . |
| 3 | In the months leading up to the Prague autumn , The Slavia played elegant host to a more accurate cross-section of Czech society — punks , housewives , artists , students , writers , weary shoppers — than probably existed anywhere in the country until the rallies in Wenceslas Square . |
| 4 | Supporters insist nothing would be lost other than a small car park and the steps leading up to the Prado 's ‘ Goya ’ entrance . |
| 5 | The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest . |
| 6 | Many of the biggest cities dated back to the Tokugawa period . |
| 7 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 8 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 9 | While much of the attention during the weeks leading up to the Ryder Cup was pointed at the race to clinch places and the relative form of the players involved , one man , unconcerned with the battle of The Belfry , was playing better golf than anyone . |
| 10 | Finally , in the years leading up to the Manila Congress 89 , WACC 's Forum programme was absorbed by a host of preparatory meetings in the regions and by the preparations for the Congress itself . |
| 11 | On Jan. 11 Cambodian officials turned over to the USA remains thought to be those of two US servicemen killed during the Vietnam war . |
| 12 | Violent incidents involving local inhabitants and US troops were reported outside the US Albrook Air Force Station in the days leading up to the Bush visit , and on June 10 one US soldier was shot dead and another wounded while driving an army vehicle near the Caribbean coastal city of Colón . |
| 13 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |
| 14 | Relatives call round to the Starke 's Halewood home for a traditional Sunday roast and then it 's time to plough through a big bundle of Sunday newspapers before a late afternoon nap . |
| 15 | Bearing in mind the figures and the fact that French farmers regularly burn lorry loads of English lamb and Italian grapes with complete impunity and that it is not possible for an English lorry firm to go to Germany and to load up with goods to bring back to the United Kingdom , should not the European Community try to walk before it tries to run ? |
| 16 | On the east side of the village , however , only those slopes leading up to the Bois d'Avize are comparable . |
| 17 | The village is surrounded by vines , but it is those behind Sacy on steeply climbing , northeast-facing slopes leading up to the Bois de la Fosse which are the most favourably located . |
| 18 | Ablaze with brightly hued foliage , rolling hills , jagged cliffs and tiny fishing villages , this regions harks back to the Mother Country , with the added attraction of all the diversity that America can offer . |
| 19 | Julia was so interested in the cross-examination that she almost disobeyed Anthony 's instructions to go back to the Campo San Maurizio for lunch and spend the afternoon in bed , but , remembering how weak she had felt the previous evening , she did as he said . |
| 20 | THE Phoenix Players stepped on to the Rialto stage last night with their presentation of O'Casey 's ‘ Juno and the Paycock ’ . |
| 21 | Oil droplets and soot particles falling on to the Gulf waters , already suffering from oil spills , threaten the phytoplankton which supply food for the fish . |
| 22 | The British trade is dismayed that the Open Individual Export Licence ( OIEL ) , which allowed Sotheby 's and Christie 's to issue licences for objects imported in to the UK within the last fifty years without having to go through the DNH , does not apply to objects controlled under the EC Regulation . |
| 23 | The teams will again parade through the city with a police escort back to the Albert Dock , before returning to the Blundellsands Hotel in Crosby for the evening awards party . |
| 24 | There is good evidence that a flourishing trade in false antiquities existed at the turn of the century , and its products filtered through to the United States and Europe . |
| 25 | I chose my family , and just waited for the big boys to come up to the Birkdale area . |
| 26 | Attempts to encourage otters to come back to the River Thames are being aided by the building of a man-made home for them . |
| 27 | Every city-born Yorkshire tyke comes into this world with an inborn , umbilical attachment to the Dales , those lush valleys below the brooding moorland where the Yorkshire rivers flow down to the Humber : Wharfedale , Swaledale , Airedale , Nidderdale , and Wensleydale , the only one not named alter its river , the Ure . |
| 28 | Donna paid for the teas and the two women walked out to the Fiesta and got in . |
| 29 | His thoughts drifted back to the Connons . |
| 30 | Without her realising it , Fabia 's thoughts drifted back to the Gloucestershire home she shared with her parents in the village of Hawk Lacey . |