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 . |