Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [noun sg] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came to our house at Charltons a lot . |
| 2 | Dominic Martindale , 17 , was killed as he walked to his home at High Wycombe , Bucks , last month . |
| 3 | He walked to his death at Reading on 7 July 1896 , the famous hangman Billington in charge of operations . |
| 4 | On his retirement in 1961 he returned to his home at Dunlop , Ayrshire , and devoted himself to analysis and further surveys of megalithic sites ( ‘ stone circles ’ ) from the Orkneys as far south as the well-known Carnac site in Brittany , with over 2,000 stones . |
| 5 | When he had finished visiting all the positions he returned to his base at Ballykinler in time to get a couple of hours ' sleep before briefing the helicopter pilots who were to fly in support of the checkpoint operation . |
| 6 | And so Thomas Hardy returned to his house at Max Gate to continue work on his last grim novel Jude the Obscure , Tess having appeared in the previous year . |
| 7 | ‘ We failed , ’ Steve said to Kees when we returned to our base at Shokumshun . |
| 8 | Remember what a dessert they got to their dinner at Falkirk . ’ |
| 9 | Rather quaintly , the Governor observed that it was ‘ strange ’ for a Buddhist , ‘ although not perhaps a practising one ’ , to invoke the name of God ; he concluded that Aung San 's wife , Khin Kyi , with her Christian upbringing inspired this : Rance went to their house at nightfall under conditions of secrecy . |
| 10 | Daddy went to his grave at Romaldkirk in the same way , on our cart which was pulled by his favourite horse , a little cob called Dick . |
| 11 | The plaintiff was a steel erector who fell to his death at work . |
| 12 | I wrote to my tutor at Brasenose asking for advice on what to read , and he suggested some ‘ shorter essays ’ such as Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( in six volumes ) . |
| 13 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |