Example sentences of "[vb past] on a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
2 | Macmillan himself early in 1959 embarked on a reconnaissance to Moscow to appraise the mood and intentions of the Kremlin . |
3 | Most of the daughters ( except Rose , who lost an eye ) soon married , but Minnie 's marriage to Abe Greenbaum came to an abrupt end when she did a ‘ bunk with Claud ’ — a doctor she met on a visit to London . |
4 | As George Dionisovich and I were finally parting , he passed on a suggestion to Dimitri Likhachev and the USSR 's then Minister of Culture , Nikolai Gubenko , about concrete assistance for the establishment of the museum . |
5 | I hopped on a bus to King 's Cross and then took a tube round to Leicester Square , missing out Covent Garden station as the lifts were out of action again . |
6 | This year , we sent 79 children to Germany , 42 children to France on two-week exchanges , 70 children on a weekend trip to France , the fifth-years went on a trip to Paris . |
7 | I also wanted my son Mark , who 's in the army , to give me away before he went on a posting to Northern Ireland . ’ |
8 | They went on a honeymoon to India where Gould sulked profusely and Rebuck kept wondering if she had done the right thing . |
9 | He said : ‘ In 1968 I went on a visit to Mexico … |
10 | I went on a chara to Blackpool with the girls from work , and we never stopped singing . |
11 | Elgin 's roof-leads , with those of Aberdeen Cathedral , went to the bottom of the sea when the ship foundered on a voyage to Holland , and Johnson invited every reader to ‘ rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost ’ . |
12 | Mr Koc said on a visit to Dr Crockett 's surgery he saw him hand a cheque to Mr Ata Nur Kuntar . |
13 | Mr Koc said on a visit to Dr Crockett 's surgery he saw him hand a cheque to Mr Ata Nur Kuntar . |
14 | Lisson 's collaboration between Michael Joaquin Grey and Randolph Huff , with sculpture by Tony Cragg 's pupil , Wilhelm Mundt ( to 10 October ) , will be followed by new works by John Latham and a new installation by Christian Boltanski ( 20 October-21 November ) , a photographic record of the pupils of the gallery 's local school , North Westminster Community School , which he compiled on a visit to London last month . |