Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 10 May , on Soviet invitation , Gen Keightley went to Voitsberg to confer with the Commander of the Soviet 6 Guards Corps . |
| 2 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 3 | Then Liza told me that Mrs Mitchell had died in childbirth and that Nelly herself had been taken to Wolverhampton to live with an aunt and uncle . |
| 4 | A week later , the trial was told , MacIver had hired a car and followed the lorry to Inverness to prepare for the robbery . |
| 5 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 6 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 7 | Suttons of Reading brought 138 greenkeepers to Henley to play after a conference — perhaps their year of looking after the course was done with this in mind . |
| 8 | We sent er our er receptionist to Lincoln to listen to the tape recording . |
| 9 | The next day we went to Breckland to look for a bird that some people think of as ‘ a bit of a bustard ’ . |
| 10 | Before Richard had left for Canada , Philip had secured a pass for him to come to Cardiff to star in a radio production of The Corn Is Green . |
| 11 | Training to be a teacher and with a wisdom that belied her years , she explained that it was her half-brother who was now living in Mainz and had suggested that Erich ( the Dusseldorfer ) travel down to Tonga to look for a wife . |
| 12 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 13 | He called to Eleanor to come into the kitchen . |
| 14 | In Romania , however , there was not even a ripple when Mr Gorbachev went to Bucharest to preside over a Warsaw Pact summit in July . |
| 15 | The Montenegrin poet and the Serbian philologist made friends immediately , and in 1834 Vuk was invited to Cetinje to assist in the establishment of a new printing press , using Vuk 's phonetic orthographic principle . |
| 16 | About 30 people , including two fellow-Hildas — Hilda Lodge and Hilda Hewitt — came to Weston to join in the birthday celebrations . |
| 17 | In the later months of 1989 several exiled opposition activists returned to Taiwan to participate in the campaign for the December elections . |
| 18 | People used to go to Bedlam to laugh at the lunatics . |
| 19 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 20 | Then he fled to Mexico to live with the family of his parents ' Mexican maid . |
| 21 | What is the assembly of Eurip European unity policies and regions and why was it necessary to send two representatives to Portugal to attend at a cost of over one thousand five hundred . |
| 22 | It took him considerably less than that , for within weeks of the couple parting , Mr Parkes , 27 , took advantage of Miss Dyson 's trip to Spain to return to the home in Northwich they had once shared . |
| 23 | She came to England to stay with a sister , went to acting school in London and through a teacher who knew how to persuade Emlyn Williams , was all but smuggled into The Last Days of Dolwyn as the sixth girl extra ‘ when only five had been budgeted for . |
| 24 | Later he returned to England to work in a POW camp : |
| 25 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 26 | Christie 's has even gone to Washington to lobby for the bill . |
| 27 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 28 | We went to Washington to talk to the IRS and said , ‘ Look , honest donors want a reputable place to get appraisals and we think dealers are best qualified to provide it ’ . |
| 29 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 30 | Hostilities in Europe ended on May 8 , and soon after the Squadron was informed that it would be going to the Far East as part of the ‘ Tiger Force ’ , and on June 16 Sugar went with the rest of the unit to Metheringham to prepare for the move . |