Example sentences of "to [noun prp] from [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet President Gorbachev made an official stop-over visit to the South Korean island of Cheju on April 19-20 , whilst returning to Moscow from his four-day visit to Japan [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 2 | Sanjurjo perished at the very outset when the plane taking him back to Spain from his Portuguese exile crashed on take-off . |
| 3 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
| 4 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |
| 5 | In 1863 , in a note written on a rare visit to England from his self-imposed exile in warmer climes , Lear apologises to Gould for not visiting him because , ‘ all my daylight hours have gone in the service of the old Enemy — Lithography . ’ |
| 6 | He moves to Lothian from his current post of executive director with Oscar Faber TPA . |
| 7 | The Archdeacon 's wife motioned to Theodora from her reclining position on her sofa by the window . |
| 8 | The slower the growth , the more time AT&T will have to strengthen the challenge to OS/2 from its rival Unix operating system . |
| 9 | The two men were reputedly friends and these sturdy cat-built vessels were of a type familiar to Cook from his earliest days at sea , apprenticed to a Whitby shipmaster . |
| 10 | Chuck Peddle 's THStyme Inc is to open its third European subsidiary in Giessen , near Frankfurt in Germany : the new operation is to be headed by Gunter Got ta a veteran of both Tandon and Victor in Germany ; THStyme reckons it will soon be shipping products to Europe from its Russian manufacturing base . |
| 11 | Mossad proposed that to conceal the plan they would send TOW missiles to Iran from their own stocks and America would ship them replenishments . |
| 12 | Brought forward to September from its usual November date , Gladys Sellers and Tom Prentice look at what 's new at the annual trade show |
| 13 | The champagne was still on ice yesterday morning as the pair , who returned to Britain from their 95-day expedition exhausted but jubilant on Wednesday , kept to their alcohol-free diet . |
| 14 | Conti plays a disgraced MI5 agent returning to Britain from his adopted Russia and forced to team up with an old espionage adversary ( John Standing ) — but who is spying on whom ? |