Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned in surprise to Neil , to see him pointing away from the bay towards where , in a cloud of spray , a powerful-looking launch was heading fast towards us . |
| 2 | I refer of course to Norman Lamont and the startling revelations that his Access card is £470 over its £2,000 limit . |
| 3 | I returned without trouble to England . |
| 4 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 5 | Identify the problem , e.g. should I go on holiday to Australia to meet a friend — I do n't know if I can afford it ? |
| 6 | So I did n't really meet Tessa until I went on holiday to America and we were introduced by a mutual friend . |
| 7 | For example , I went on holiday to Majorca last year with my mum and dad . |
| 8 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 9 | I WRITE in response to Judith Raymont ( November 16 ) who wrote of the cartoon Men — A User 's Guide , ‘ It is either insulting to men and should not be endorsed by publication , or it is witty and amusing , in which case we , as women , have no right to complain about equivalent portrayals of female stereotypes . ’ |
| 10 | I write in response to Katy Deepwell 's essay , ‘ Time Ladies ’ , ( May/June 1992 ) which I felt was too negative for the situation as I see it : Feminism has been a catalyst for analytical practice . |
| 11 | I WRITE in response to David Close 's letter ( WCM Aug ) concerning the hourly breaks in BBC TV 's cricket coverage for News updates . |
| 12 | Sir — I write in tribute to Fred Daly , the only Irishman to win the Open Championship and certainly one of Erin 's finest sportsmen . |
| 13 | ‘ I need to flight-plan to Geneva tonight . |
| 14 | Their farm , West park , was in Lunedale and I travelled by train to Middleton in Teesdale . |
| 15 | After four years Roger died and , owing to the enmity of the bishop of Lincoln , she appealed for protection to Thurstan [ q.v. ] , archbishop of York . |
| 16 | Yes — there she was , and this time she turned in response to Sophie 's call . |
| 17 | She sympathised with the Duchess of York as she fought against her lack of freedom , she was tactful and kind when her own daughter told her that her marriage was dead and , finally , she acted as mediator to Charles and Diana as they fought out the death throes of their loveless union . |
| 18 | You can select any logical name you like in preference to LSLIVE_QA , but it must be a maximum of 19 characters . |
| 19 | When you talk about politics to BBC people , they immediately assume you mean BBC politics , not relations between the parties or the superpowers , but who 's going to be the next DG . |
| 20 | She was invited to a few parties , kissed good-night outside her door in South Kensington , taken out to lunch by a young man training to be a chartered accountant , and to an Italian film by another who was ‘ in the City ’ ; she was beginning to forget about Rupert when one evening towards the end of January she was later than usual leaving Toogood and Shelve , the publishers , where she worked as secretary to Mr Shelve . |
| 21 | ‘ Why did n't you go by bike to Markham cum Cumbermound 's club ? ’ |
| 22 | THE woman who left her 11-year-old daughter alone in a London flat while she went on holiday to Spain denied last night that she had been heartless or wicked . |
| 23 | She dragged the heavy tome along with her when she went on tour to Japan to give her plenty of bed time reading on her favourite subject . |
| 24 | Instead , more tentatively , he said : ‘ I suppose Hilda had given anything she had of interest to Mr Kronweiser before she died . ’ |
| 25 | The grammar school in Weirwold only takes boys , ’ she said in protest to Zach , ‘ and they never bother to put girls in fer the high school . |
| 26 | ‘ From Armidel , ’ writes Johnson , ‘ we came at night to Coriatachan , a house very pleasantly situated between two brooks , with one of the highest hills of the island behind it . ’ |
| 27 | On Thursday we travel by ferry to Kintyre and then from Claonaig to Lochranza where we visit the 16th-century tower house ( HS ) . |
| 28 | We refer of course to Kevlar , Spectra , Dyneema , and derivatives . |
| 29 | As we saw in relation to Gide , even in a secularized philosophy of transgression , metaphors of transcendence abound . |
| 30 | We go on holiday to Cornwall , John and I and my family . |