Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The sight later of these hundreds of flaring candles , from across the river , as the light faded on a grey evening , was as near as I was able to come in Lourdes to any sense of holiness , so oppressive otherwise is the sense of the business of holiness . |
| 3 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 4 | However , overloading of certain services remains a major problem , and reports have been received of passengers having to stand from Birmingham to Aberystwyth ! |
| 5 | One reason for that is that most of the thousands of people who travel on those wretched trains to come to London to work are either unskilled or semi-skilled , to use the terms of the manufacturing industry . |
| 6 | She had had a glimpse of the academic sort of ‘ summer school ’ when she went to Oxford to lecture on Ivy to some foreign students . |
| 7 | Levagh put his had up to indicate to Fangio to that he was about to overtake ; Macklin then braked , Levagh caught Macklin 's car and somersaulted over the safety barrier into the crowd . |
| 8 | She just had to have someone to talk about Fred to , and Jane , who 'd been through exactly the same cycle of experiences with him as Doris had , only one floor below , was the ideal person . " |
| 9 | To talk about God to starving men is simply a waste of time for to them God is bread ; he can only appear to them as the bread of life . |
| 10 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 11 | Emilio Segre was one kid , and Bruno Pontecorvo , later to defect from Britain to the Soviet Union , another . |
| 12 | It had been a topic of some concern , in the days when I worked fairly regularly at the Mimosa , that Stubbly always preferred to walk through Chinatown to the Piccadilly Circus Barclays , as even on a Thursday morning he could have got mugged . |
| 13 | He was glad to escape from Ottawa to Aix . |
| 14 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 15 | She has already walked across Australia and the US , and now plans to walk from Gibraltar to John O'Groats to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world on foot . |
| 16 | I think some one has to walk from Nottingham to Dundee . |
| 17 | Win a chance to sail from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro with the British Steel Challenge . |
| 18 | Peggy travelled extensively around the country introducing Medau , and a 5.30 a.m. start to journey from Sheffield to London ( accompanied only by a large bag of balls ) to teach just one class was not exceptional ! |
| 19 | They had to journey from Heathrow to Edinburgh by overnight coach and check out of their Edinburgh hotel two hours before the kick-off because they could not afford to remain there after the match . |
| 20 | To walk on Tiptoe to the Verge of Man ; |
| 21 | Ruth longed to go with Anna to their room . |
| 22 | They 'd planned to go with Sinatra to his home in the desert to see in the New Year . |
| 23 | Right D two how long does it take to go from Ventnor to Swanage in a launch with a speed of eight miles per hour ? |
| 24 | He added : ‘ I was staggered to learn that limestone was to go from Redmire to Redcar by road when we were told in 1988 that British Steel could n't get enough of it and had put on an additional train . |
| 25 | how many hours does it take to go from Lulworth to Bournemouth ? |
| 26 | Stage eight of the Milk Race on June 2 is due to go from Blackpool to Darlington , passing through the Richmondshire district from Hawes to Richmond . |
| 27 | Stage eight of the Milk race on June 2 is due to go from Blackpool to Darlington , passing through the Richmondshire district from Hawes to Richmond . |
| 28 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 29 | And the person who had sorted it together at Birmingham made sure that the next stop it was at , the waggons would be at the back end to leave in that town and this is what my father was doing by er er shunting as it was called , or making a train up to go from Nottingham to London , or some other place in the country , with up to fifty or sixty trucks behind it and they did n't want the trucks next to the engine to be dropped off at the first place and having to shove and push about in their marshalling yard . |
| 30 | So you can imagine the sort of conversations we 're gon na have when Ray and Cynthia are talking about the distances between things and I 'm going to be saying you know if I want to go from Piccadilly to Tech house , it can take me at least half an hour . |