Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Eight hundred oarsmen and women will be rowing through Herefordshire to Wales in the River Wye Raft Race . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Entry to Abbot 's Yard car park will be through the archway off Bondgate and exit via Skinnergate to Bondgate . |
| 7 | Lear moved with Ann to lodgings in Upper North Street , off the Gray 's Inn Road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He fled via Linlithgow to Dunbar and ignominiously took a rowing-boat back to the English border at Berwick . |
| 11 | She insisted on driving with Murphy to Bodmin to meet her parents . |
| 12 | Fly from Cairo to Aswan and transfer to the Nile Symphony . |
| 13 | Fly from London to Seattle and board a connecting flight to Anchorage . |
| 14 | DAVID KILSBY David Kilsby joined the retail sales force in September as Merchandiser for the Southern area which covers from Cornwall to East Anglia . |
| 15 | The state attracts seasonal labour because it has an intensive agricultural economy that complements the Mexican growing season : two-thirds of all state produce is harvested from June to September , when Mexico is not harvesting . |
| 16 | Canada 's 12-month trade surplus rose in March to $9.9 billion , three times its size a year ago . |
| 17 | This rapid response is followed by a region of creep , A to B , initially fast but eventually slowing down to a constant rate represented by the section B to C. When the stress is removed the instantaneous elastic response OA is completely recovered and the curve drops from C to D , i.e. the distance . |
| 18 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 19 | Eight years after her marriage to Robert Dudley , Amy Robsart , daughter of a Norfolk knighted gentleman , moved from Lincolnshire to Berkshire to take up the vast abode that her charming if rakish husband had provided for her . |
| 20 | When newspapers first speculated that Lady Dartmouth was to replace the Earl of Dartmouth with the divorced Earl Spencer , a then-unknown Lady Sarah Spencer gave the memorable quote : ‘ Since my grandfather died last June and we moved from Sandringham to Althorp Park , Lady Dartmouth has been an all-too-frequent visitor . ’ |
| 21 | In the fourteenth century , while France was being drained by constant warfare , the artistic centre of this part of Europe moved from Paris to Belgium , where Brussels and Antwerp were able to attract artists of fame and quality . |
| 22 | Shearer , who became British football 's most expensive player when he moved from Southampton to Blackburn for £3.4 million at the start of the season , has played only 30 minutes since Boxing Day . |
| 23 | McMenemy might have been thinking of Steve Williams , another promising talent who 'd already won six England caps when he moved from Southampton to Arsenal in December l984 . |
| 24 | A FIRM which moved from London to Liverpool and doubled turnover in each of the past three years has moved to a prestige waterfront office block . |
| 25 | His career in the upper echelons of the Football League seemed to have ended when John moved from Charlton to Crystal Palace on 25 October 1963 after nine years at The Valley . |
| 26 | Mr Michael Bates ( C ) , aged 31 , who recently moved from Gateshead to Marton with his wife Carole and sons Matthew , four , and Alexander , two . |
| 27 | ‘ When ICL moved from Stoke to West Gorton in Manchester , I became a commuter and I did n't like it , ’ he says . |
| 28 | It is likely that Kim moved from Manchuria to Khabarovsk in January 1941 . |
| 29 | Marinello 's drift into melancholy uncannily predicted the future that Charlie Nicholas would have to endure when he moved from Celtic to Arsenal two decades later . |
| 30 | In 1910 it moved from Mombasa to Nairobi , changed its name to the East African Standard and became a daily . |