Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 2 | However , there was still a long way to go for Spain to be fully integrated into the world concert of nations ; indeed , this was not possible while Franco lived . |
| 3 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 4 | The doctor came , and arranged for Esther to be re-admitted to the gynaecological ward of the hospital so that she could continue nursing the baby , if possible . |
| 5 | From the south transept door of York Minster the Centenary Way goes through York to the western bank of the River Foss , following The Foss Walk . |
| 6 | But they only asked for Eva to be found , not brought home . |
| 7 | In a meeting in Washington with International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) Managing Director Michel Camdessus , Menem asked for Argentina to be given more time to make debt repayments to the Fund . |
| 8 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |
| 9 | The DGM thus argued for Banstead to be absolved from the competitive tendering process . |
| 10 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 11 | And I suppose , thought Fenella , with a sidelong glance at her companion , that I shall have to find a suitable way , an acceptable way , of explaining about Nuadu to Caspar . |
| 12 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 13 | And Dons boss Joe Kinnear reckons the time has come for Fashanu to be reconsidered by England in time for next month 's World Cup qualifier against Norway at Wembley . |
| 14 | Eight hundred oarsmen and women will be rowing through Herefordshire to Wales in the River Wye Raft Race . |
| 15 | As expected ( UX No 433 ) , Microsoft Corp did n't wait for SunSelect to actually announce its Windows-on-Unix WABI system before taking retaliatory action — see front page . |
| 16 | The Leander class frigate headed for Portsmouth to be decommissioned after paying a final farewell to Teesside . |
| 17 | Looks like Robbie to me . |
| 18 | The ministry said yesterday that it was first warned by the Dutch on November 1 that 550 tonnes of Indian rice bran contaminated with lead sulphate had come via Rotterdam to Teignmouth in Devon . |
| 19 | The following year I was offered a house in town and moved into Stornoway to be nearer my work . |
| 20 | She moved into Fife to be near the Forth estuary , where Thorfinn was oftenest to be found . |
| 21 | Entry to Abbot 's Yard car park will be through the archway off Bondgate and exit via Skinnergate to Bondgate . |
| 22 | Lear moved with Ann to lodgings in Upper North Street , off the Gray 's Inn Road . |
| 23 | There has been a feeling that they would compromise with Chelsea to the extent of accepting half the £22.85 million valuation . |
| 24 | From there , at 16 , he moved via Lebanon to Detroit , where he worked in a beauty shop and a car factory before helping the notorious Purple Gang smuggle alcohol from Canada in a hearse . |
| 25 | Returning via Paris to New York , Pérez de Cuéllar reported to the UN Security Council on Jan. 14 the lack of success in his discussions with Saddam Hussein . |
| 26 | He fled via Linlithgow to Dunbar and ignominiously took a rowing-boat back to the English border at Berwick . |
| 27 | She insisted on driving with Murphy to Bodmin to meet her parents . |
| 28 | Principally these occur on Pevensey Levels , part of the Low Weald , and on that part of Romney Marsh that lies within Sussex to the east of Rye . |
| 29 | Fly from Cairo to Aswan and transfer to the Nile Symphony . |
| 30 | Fly from London to Seattle and board a connecting flight to Anchorage . |