Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The choice is upstream to Broomhill Bridge ( 1 mile ) or downstream to Grantown-on-Spey ( 3 miles ) . |
2 | Mr de Klerk began : ‘ I say thank you very much to Mitchells Plain . |
3 | Nevertheless , the pattern of Japan 's postwar history owes much to Occupation policy . |
4 | This was the policy the British intended to pursue at Chicago , much to US chagrin . |
5 | that there is , this grid lock situation I mentioned earlier on a larger scale has al already occurs er on the way in that er basically to Earls Court as I mentioned earlier it 's in Shepherds Bush . |
6 | I said I doubt QPR would accept that much … but she said that Gerry Francis ( that ex Suffragette/Black/Leeds player ; - ) ) is looking for replacements as he is resigned to losing Bardsley … not necessarily to Leeds Id imagine . |
7 | We 'd alighted at Kirkby Stephen 's spruce little station , 19 miles down the line , especially to bag supper at the Horseshoe . |
8 | He accepted the original challenge from Technology plc and said : ‘ I 'd like to express my appreciation to Walsall FC and especially to Technology plc , who arranged the coach for the CMS team 's 15 spectators who travelled down to Walsall and for organising the match officials and buffet in the evening . ’ |
9 | The sensor will react instantaneously to body heat and bring on a light outside your home whenever anyone approaches . |
10 | They calculate that the ageing population is adding 1 per cent annually to health service costs . |
11 | The main point , however , is that this alternative way of analysing profit seems to lend itself more naturally to business thinking and can be linked in with conceptual thinking about strategy . |
12 | Posters , magazines , even songs , held out the prospect of Arcadia within travelling distance of the metropolis — a detached house in leafy seclusion , but close enough to golf club , tennis club , and railway station . |
13 | Too much attention was paid to low-damage but high-publicity cases like oil spills and the famous toxic waste in Love Canal , not enough to habitat loss and global warming . |
14 | Politics must play a major role in any decision — but how long can the organisers afford to defer their verdict on whether the country is stable enough to stage World Cup 1995 ? |
15 | One 's enough to kill.Police target the lunchtime drinker . |
16 | I 'm not stupid enough to risk taking hold of your muddy paw now ; you 'll pull me in too ! ’ |
17 | so that was n't strong enough to shovel coal ? |
18 | The bus took the coast road , around the tall grey Ox Mountains , beside dark sea cliffs with grassy rounded undulating contours , dropping down to Sligo Bay . |
19 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
20 | The orders came from Command right down to squadron level ; the preparations started about mid-morning as soon as this vast sheet of paper from the teleprinter indicating every facet of the job ahead arrived . |
21 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
22 | Still undecided , we breakfasted early and , having packed our walking gear into the Citroën ( though with up to 64 cubic feet of space accessed through a hatch that opens practically down to ankle level , packing is hardly the word ) , we drove off . |
23 | Before he could fit in a visit , he was forestalled by Len Brayton , Maisie 's father , who rode down to Aumery Park Farm one Wednesday in mid-January , after attending the market at Kirkbymoorside . |
24 | Also , he had Amy 's body sent down to Worcester College , Oxford , where it was interned with costly pageantry and ostentation . |
25 | First courses are probably down to vegetable soup or corn-on-the-cob without salt or butter . |
26 | Quite a few of us from used to go down to cricket match . |
27 | Jamie walks me down to Brockley Cross , inhaling fresh air through his nostrils like Islanders sniff cocaine . |
28 | She even had , by the classical period , Long Walls running down to Lechaion harbour , like those which joined Athens to Piraeus ; and she had a decent-sized navy : the Corinthians lent twenty ships to Athens before the Persian Wars and contributed forty in the Persian Wars themselves , and they had ninety ships at the battle of Sybota ( p. 89 ) . |
29 | The urgency to complete it was put down to US pressure to achieve a result in time for the opening of the Republican Party convention on Aug. 17 , apparently in an attempt to boost the troubled election campaign of President George Bush by convincing the US electorate that his skills in the foreign policy field had domestic benefits . |
30 | Seemed to be going down to south coast of the river |