Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian diva , whose operatic performances he faithfully attended from La Scala to the Met — for four months ? |
| 2 | The shooting of Yusef Hawkins last year while looking for a car in another mainly white area of the city led X-Clan to organise ‘ The Taking Of The Brooklyn Bridge ’ , when 10,000 black youths occupied one of the bridges connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York in a living roadblock . |
| 3 | When they leave here they will probably stroll down the Rue Catinat to the riverside . |
| 4 | Secondly , it conjures the Wild West by virtue of its position as the middle of a line of three forts , Fort William to the south , and Fort George to the north . |
| 5 | Tadpole sells board-level products OEM to the likes of General Electric Co Inc and Polaroid Corp . |
| 6 | Tadpole sells board-level products OEM to the likes of General Electric Co Inc and Polaroid Corp . |
| 7 | Appreciating that the RAF would be playing a dominant role in manning Britain 's nuclear deterrent , Eden had appointed Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson to the post . |
| 8 | This exciting prospect , a bequest from the late Jim Joel to the Queen Mother , looks set to give his new owner a memorable season following four wins last term culminating in the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 9 | One authority on the evolution of the working-class quotes Friedrich Engels to the effect that , |
| 10 | Powell and Pressburger brought their Archers outfit under the umbrella of Rank 's Independent Producers company where they made all their films from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to The Red Shoes . |
| 11 | It was about 13 miles from Hotel Vancouver and was reached by driving through Stanley Park , across the Lions ' Gate Bridge , then turning left through West Vancouver to the end of Marine Drive . |
| 12 | Young & Rubicam is hotly tipped to have won the £11m pan-European Pirelli account , beating Saatchi & Saatchi and Woollams Moira Gaskin O'Malley to the business . |
| 13 | Then at closing time , he would climb Brownlow Hill to the Commercial Hotel , arm in arm with Bunny , thinking of her , of how special she was , pondering on her remarkable reticence . |
| 14 | A notable feature of the ambers from Kakovatos is that they include spacer beads with convergent perforations like those on similar pieces from tumulus burials in south Germany , on the route from the amber coast of west Jutland to the Aegean world . |
| 15 | I 'd never seen Mum dance before , but she slipped out of her sandals and danced with Auntie Jean to the Jackson Five . |
| 16 | With the addition of the two seats held by Moledet , the coalition now held 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset [ see p. 37872 for addition of four-member Agudat Yisrael to the coalition in November 1990 ] . |
| 17 | On 24th May 1855 , Lawyer , Old Joseph , The Wolf ( Utsinmalikin ) , Three Feathers ( Metat Waptass ) and Red Wolf ( Hemene Ilppilp ) led 2500 Nez Perce to the council grounds , where Stevens ' 100-strong entourage was encamped with other tribes of the Columbia basin . |
| 18 | Whipple insisted upon seeing Looking Glass , and as Bird Alighting returned to his chief 's lodge , a civilian suddenly shot a watching Nez Perce to the ground . |
| 19 | When Captain John and Old George returned to say that Miles wished to have no more war , and would return the Nez Perce to the reservation , Joseph became convinced that he was now being asked to negotiate not a surrender , but a peace . |
| 20 | Already heavily into drugs , he dropped out of Hollywood and went East , following in the unsteady steps of Bobby Driscoll to the New York drug scene . |
| 21 | — Frankie Taylor to the guest of honour at the British Boxing Writers ' Club annual dinner . |
| 22 | From the fantasy of Disneyland to the monumental Grand Canyon , the neon lights of Las Vegas to the bushland of Yosemite National Park , this region bursts with excitement and glamour . |
| 23 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 24 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 25 | Though the journey from Godolphin 's house in Primrose Hill to the Tabula Rasa 's Tower was short , and Dowd got him up to Highgate on the dot of six , Oscar suggested they drive down through Crouch End then up through Muswell Hill and back to the Tower , so that they 'd arrive ten minutes late . |
| 26 | Another import from Jamaica was Rastafarianism , which was a mystical cult based on the accession of Haille Selassie to the throne of Ethiopia and concerning the downfall of the white colonial races ( Babylon ) . |
| 27 | From Miss Betabuys to the most sought after lodger in The Street , she is now the Belle behind the bar at the Rovers Return . |
| 28 | They 've chosen quite a diversity of places , from wild and lonely Wester Ross to the spectacular north Cornish coast . |
| 29 | Eleven Aberdeen players were laid low by the virus , and Rangers lost their international goalkeeper Andy Goram to the bug . |
| 30 | situated between Strand Lane and Surrey Street to the south of the Strand , west London , it is now the property of the National Trust . |