Example sentences of "walk [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first of these two methods is analogous to the real-world process of walking from London to Brighton and counting the steps ; the second is not . |
| 2 | Become one of Chaucer 's happy band of pilgrims , walking from Southwark to Canterbury and the miracle working tomb of St Thomas Becket . |
| 3 | TODAY Ian will be walking from Devonport to Kingsbridge — a total of 23.2 miles — and still looks well on course to win his bet with Corals , the bookmakers who are helping sponsor this trip . |
| 4 | Last April , three of us had a wonderful five days , walking from Machynlleth to Harlech , taking in Cader Idris and the Rhinogs on the way . |
| 5 | But everyone says it would be a mistake to dismiss Mrs Shephard as ‘ a mumsy suburban type ’ , even though she shows some housewifey traits such as walking from Westminster to a West End restaurant in a pair of sensible shoes where she will then change into high heels carried in a plastic bag . |
| 6 | It had been a topic of some concern , in the days when I worked fairly regularly at the Mimosa , that Stubbly always preferred to walk through Chinatown to the Piccadilly Circus Barclays , as even on a Thursday morning he could have got mugged . |
| 7 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 8 | She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot . |
| 9 | I think some one has to walk from Nottingham to Dundee . |
| 10 | To walk on Tiptoe to the Verge of Man ; |
| 11 | Charles felt depressed as he walked through Soho to Archer Street that evening . |
| 12 | She walked past Tara to where Guy Sterne still lounged on his chair , keeping her eyes level as she met his . |
| 13 | She walked past Jotan to the door , and the pages who were stationed there hastened to open it for her . |
| 14 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 15 | But the good-night was not as definite as it sounded and Fritz , cowed though he was , knew it and walked with Erika to her bus-stop and waited with her in the cold until the bus did trundle along , and even then he made an attempt to get on it with her , a ploy which , with a deft use of her elbow , Erika foiled , leaving him standing at the bus-stop ; a lonely rejected youth , bowed as with the sorrows of all the world — and yet irresistibly comic . |
| 16 | In August 1846 he walked from Preston to the World 's Temperance Convention in London , preaching teetotalism on the way . |
| 17 | FIVE students walked from France to Britain after breaching security in the Channel Tunnel . |
| 18 | Near Hawthornden Castle is Ben Jonson 's Tree ; the newly appointed Poet Laureate , Ben Jonson walked from London to Hawthornden in 1618 and met the Poet Drummond under this particular tree . |
| 19 | I walked from Newington to Waverley with minimally packed rucksack — I was getting the hang of this backpacking . |
| 20 | I once walked from Shieldaig to Annat long before the two communities were linked by a modern road , a woodland path pointing the way . |
| 21 | It was he who walked from Bristol to London via Glasgow and Edinburgh in papyrus sandals to prove his theory that all Roman roads turned right . |
| 22 | He had told a friend not long before , ‘ If you walked from Humber to Severn and dodged Derby , you would not find a bishop who can read or write ’ . |
| 23 | He has , for example , created a visible straight line across grass by repeated walking ; walked a ten mile ( 1.6 km ) dead straight line across Exmoor ; walked all the roads and tracks within a six mile ( 10 km ) radius of the Cerne Abbas giant ; walked from Stonehenge to Glastonbury on Midsummer 's Day ; and created cairns , stone circles and labyrinths at specific sites in the landscape . |
| 24 | Cornish celebrities of his acquaintance included John Couch Adams , discoverer of the planet Neptune , and Mary Kelynack , renowned as the lady who , at the age of eighty , walked from Newlyn to London and back to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 25 | With little desire to talk , she walked beside Tom to his car — the sports car this time , as he had exchanged keys with Bill a few minutes ago . |
| 26 | He retained many child qualities of his own , including a liking for an excellent roll downhill , witnessed by one of his friends , a Mr Langton , who had walked with Johnson to the top of a very steep height . |
| 27 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco |
| 28 | The fullest enjoyment of Giorgione 's altarpiece could , he claimed , only be realised if we had walked from Venice to Castelfranco . |
| 29 | You can walk from Rye to the beautiful beach at Camber sands . |
| 30 | LISS teenager Andrew Brewster is hoping to raise £1,000 for Guide Dogs for the Blind when he walks from Alton to Kingsley and back on April 1st . |