Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was much involved in Irish land investment and naval actions and led a mission to Holland for relief of Irish Protestants ( 1643 ) . |
| 2 | At the conference , the Director of the National Museum in Phnom Penh , Pich Keo , asked Unesco to pass information on stolen property to Interpol and the International Council of Museums , and made a plea to museum directors to research the provenance of objects in their collections , and to return those illegally exported from Cambodia . |
| 3 | At Elstree a quite famous actress got in , and cooed a bit to Heather until we got to London . |
| 4 | They got off the bus at Holborn and got a train to Mile End , from there taking another train to Ilford . |
| 5 | I took a wallet from Birmingham New Street Station and got a train to London . |
| 6 | On her very next day off Paula made herself up carefully , put on her smartest suit — a cheap version of the one she had shown in the restaurant — and caught a bus to Bristol . |
| 7 | A few minutes later , he paid off the taxi and caught a bus to Shepherd 's Bush . |
| 8 | Eilean Donan provided a strong , almost impregnable , base , the invaders still enjoyed the advantage of surprise and Inverness , supposed to be lightly held , lay a mere 56 miles [ 90 km ] away , but , after several days of indecision , Tullibardine lost his nerve completely and proposed a return to Spain . |
| 9 | Nu was drawn strongly to the Chinese struggle against Japan and paid a visit to China under KMT auspices . |
| 10 | It was in the late summer of 1937 that I took the train to Newark , in Nottinghamshire , and paid a visit to Kelham , centre of the Community of the Resurrection . |
| 11 | The maid came through from the back of the house and bobbed a curtsy to Emily . |
| 12 | She had sent the article and included a note to Ana , but although Ana had written enthusiastically Felipe had not even sent his kind regards . |
| 13 | Following the transfer of power the opposition parties officially called off their agitation programmes and urged a return to work . |
| 14 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 15 | The organisation said it was ‘ astonishing ’ that it was still regarded as a slur for a person to be described as gay , and delivered a letter to Mr Donovan calling for his support in their campaign for the ‘ enactment of legislation for lesbian and gay equality ’ . |
| 16 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 17 | For his summer holiday he went with Henry Legerton to Positano , seeing Italy for the first time , and sent a card to Hanns : ‘ We have lounged like lizards . |
| 18 | 500 teachers in Gloucestershire went on strike and sent a delegation to London to back an appeal against a 10 million pound cut in county budgets . |
| 19 | But they do blame the Hunt Saboteurs who organised the demonstration in Cambridgeshire and sent a bus to Milton Keynes to pick up young supporters . |
| 20 | We then went by train into the country , and took a taxi to Dr Roylott 's house . |
| 21 | ‘ 'He that calls his brother a fool shall be damned ’ , ’ Terry said , and laughing and teasing they left the house and took a tramcar to Lime Street Station . |
| 22 | A COVENTRY schoolgirl who helped form a theatre company at the age of 14 and took a play to Russia on a 10-day tour two years later could soon be working at the National Theatre . |
| 23 | They heard the final ‘ All aboard ’ as they left the station and took a cab to Teterborough Airport . |
| 24 | Ellen and I worked hard that week and , on the Saturday , as though to commiserate with ourselves on this being our last day alone together , we stopped work at midday and took a bus to Mama Sipcott 's Café on the beach where we ate lobster and drank too much of Mama 's sticky-sweet white wine . |
| 25 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 26 | There , he excelled at maths and won a scholarship to Cambridge in 1967 . |
| 27 | ‘ I must write to Holmes at once , ’ I said , and I went straight to my room and wrote a letter to Holmes , which gave him all the details of Barrymore 's story . |
| 28 | She stood up and extended a hand to Katherine . |
| 29 | Socialist parties have often rejected such a close connection with the Western alliance , but claimed a commitment to pacifism , neutrality and equality also found among left-wing parties in the West . |