Example sentences of "fly [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 On this and the following day , over 300 sorties were flown as part of preparations for the US Marine invasion of Tulagi and two smaller nearby islands .
2 In future EC airline pilots will be permitted to continue flying commercially between the ages of 60 and 65 years providing that they fly as part of a two- or three-pilot crew . Ed
3 Fists fly for fun in town pageant
4 So that 's the way men fly like birds at night for military advantage .
5 The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland .
6 Fly from Cairo to Aswan and transfer to the Nile Symphony .
7 Fly from London to Seattle and board a connecting flight to Anchorage .
8 Fly from London on a Saturday two week holiday to give a real taste of the countryside pleasures of Tuscany and Umbria .
9 Canaries fly in face of opposition
10 If at any point they lose the scent they fly in zig-zags from side to side until they catch it again , and then fly off upwind again .
11 Fly on wings of love in the air and to the skies , be exempt like the sun from all riding beasts …
12 When I fly to California for my final rethink , maybe I 'll go the whole hog and get my blood fixed too .
13 Better still , why not simply fly to Athens from here and charter another boat from the Kalamaki marina ? ’
14 Fly to Delhi for your last night before returning to London .
15 We fly to Copenhagen on Monday on the 11.45 SAS flight from Glasgow , then catch the late afternoon flight to Bornholm to arrive in good time for dinner at Svaneke , our base for six days .
16 Lord Owen and Thorvald Stoltenberg , Vance 's successor as UN envoy to former Yugoslavia , flew by helicopter to Medjugorje from the Adriatic port of Split .
17 Nate Cocello , President of United Motors , had flown into London from Detroit with a posse of Vice Presidents to attend the bi-monthly meeting of the European Planning committee .
18 The 32-year-old French film director has just flown into London from LA , and has not had an easy time of it .
19 He 'd flown into Staverton in Glocestershire with his fifteen year-old daughter specially for the concert .
20 Ruth Hilali , who founded a Kurdish refugee charity in Worcester , should have flown into Heathrow from Turkey at midday to face questioning about the withdrawal of £130,000 from a Worcester charity for Kurdish refugees .
21 Some 10,000 troops had been flown into Caracas in response to the unrest , and official casualty figures put the number of people killed at 256 , including two soldiers and a police officer , and the number injured at 1,831 , with deaths and injuries mostly caused by gunfire .
22 I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends .
23 Paul flies into spasm of terror .
24 Gazza flies into Seville at 5pm , just hours before kick-off .
25 The Prince is likely to meet Donald ‘ Splash ’ MacKillop again when he flies into Stornoway on Lewis on 26 March .
26 There 's nothing tragic about a man flying off course like a burst tyre and exploding in a ditch .
27 ‘ Hell on ice , we should be flying through walls by now . ’
28 In most respects , using wave lift is far safer than cloud flying for attempts at Gold and Diamond heights .
29 He stopped flying after demob in 1920 .
30 The four , including Kenneth Prescott from St Helens , Merseyside , declared the drugs to customs yesterday after flying into Auckland for the world amateur bodybuilding championship which takes place on Saturday .
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