Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Congratulations , you have won a holiday to Canada . |
| 2 | The chorus of televisions was tuned to an American game show in which competing families were leaping up and down and screaming with apparent incontinence because they had won a trip to Disneyworld . |
| 3 | Mr D. Ling from Colchester in Essex has won a trip to Club St. Lucia as a result of entering the exclusive competition in the Feb/March issue of Tennis World . |
| 4 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 5 | Frank , at the age of 16 , had already won a scholarship to Trinity College in Cambridge . |
| 6 | His school was the County High School at Dagenham and from there he had won a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 7 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 8 | But six months before term began , and after Paul had won a scholarship to Corpus , Jonas Arkwright went out of his mind . |
| 9 | Jones had won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London . |
| 10 | I agreed with him , even if Posh Porky had won a scholarship to some place called St Paul 's , which in any case was miles away in Hammersmith . |
| 11 | He had telephoned a warning to the Chester office of the Echo 's sister paper , the Daily Post . |
| 12 | A charming woodland scene : a male pied flycatcher , in his sparkling black and white summer plumage , singing his simple but pleasant song , has attracted a female to his nest site . |
| 13 | Fastolf sought , and obtained , compensation for this , admittedly ten years later , and also claimed a right to the ransoms of various merchants whom he had freed from Remon . |
| 14 | If Puddephat had been at the flat in Paris on Friday evening , he could hardly have squeezed a trip to Germany in between . |
| 15 | The courts have added a gloss to the words of section 1 — ; namely that the offence is committed only if the application of the false trade description was associated with the sale or supply of goods . |
| 16 | ‘ Had either Syria or the Palestinians been shown to be involved , ’ he said , ‘ it would have added a complication to the peace conference , perhaps provoking an Israeli walk-out . ’ |
| 17 | The ducks , who live on a pond within the precincts of the court , have now added a duckling to their numbers . |
| 18 | ‘ Along with the dominance of a masculine value system in art and art history has often come a blindness to female existence , even when the reality of women 's roles is well documented by the art of a given place or period ’ . |
| 19 | I 've caught some , where I 'd caught a bus to you , if , remember when I was decorating the flat ? |
| 20 | She put in an offer to the oily estate agent and just caught a train to London , which was lucky , for there was not another for two hours . |
| 21 | Chris and Patrick had caught a train to London and taken a taxi straight to Richie 's flat . |
| 22 | The Italian doctor who claims to have successfully given fertility treatment to a 58-year-old English woman has cancelled a trip to London because he received a death threat . |
| 23 | In addition , studies in children and in adults with acute diarrhoea have reported a shift to comparatively more aerobic faecal flora , which could influence SCFA growth in the colon . |
| 24 | In our er assessment of major morbidity we have included a return to theatre , er a postoperative blood transfusion of , of more than two units of blood and the development of postoperative sepsis . |
| 25 | The appropriations bill for fiscal 1990 adopted on July 20 by the House and approved by the Senate on Sept. 28 had included a request to the HUD to develop rules prohibiting the use of outside consultants to acquire future contracts under the remaining funds in the programme . |
| 26 | It 's the last manifesto , which went out in eighty seven , included a promise to erm develop tertiary education wherever it was appropriate locally . |
| 27 | The Home Secretary had previously informed the Cabinet that he would have included a provision to this effect in the Bill if he had not thought it preferable to leave it to the Lords to take the initiative . |
| 28 | The areas covered included a guide to procurement of computer hardware and software within the RAF , a help desk to assist with the diagnosis of problems on the large variety of PCs within the Engineering Branch of the RAF and extensions to the use of rule induction techniques in the diagnosis of avionic faults at the MU . |
| 29 | The headline accompanied the story of the unfortunate Suzanne Lloyd who recounted her ‘ acid times ’ with the new pop/folk singer Donovan , which had included a visit to Jean Luc Godard 's Pierrot le Fou which she labelled as one of ‘ the ‘ acid ’ films that are in vogue now ’ . |
| 30 | The break from business discussions — about Courtaulds ' new paint factory in Shanghai — also included a visit to Goodrich Castle . |