Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun prp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are not opening in Paris solely to take advantage of the end of trading restrictions within the EC in 1993 , but because the opportunity arose to obtain a suitable area of the Hotel Bristol with our own street window and entrance . |
| 2 | Good afternoon , Celtic say that Lou Macari is expected in Scotland tomorrow to finalise the deal that will confirm him as their new manager . |
| 3 | But I have come to London early to make myself familiar with it , you see . |
| 4 | Émile permitted himself the luxury of imagining I had come to Paris just to see him . |
| 5 | Sometimes it seemed that those who loved them were almost willing the band to spend their lives touring pubs , returning to Farnborough merely to return the empties and pick up the bills . |
| 6 | All the time he and Rufus were living it up , driving about the countryside in Goblander , driving to London once to buy marijuana from the dealer Rufus knew in Notting Hill , drinking and smoking ( as he had put it ) Hilbert 's furniture away , all that time Vivien and her boyfriend Shiva were making arrangements to join Ecalpemos . |
| 7 | To me it 's good news that , in spite of fragile health , he 's landing at Heathrow today to give four lectures around England this month . |
| 8 | The government was reported by June only to have initiated proceedings for the extradition of Gustavo Stroessner in compliance with an order for his arrest on corruption charges issued by a criminal court in March . |
| 9 | Up to a hundred thousand Orangemen are due to march through Belfast today to mark the Battle of the Boyne anniversary . |
| 10 | AS Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring met in Dublin today to discuss the way ahead , following the local election results , there was no clear path for them to follow . |
| 11 | NATO Defence Ministers , rejecting criticism of a new western policy to contain the conflict in Bosnia , met in Brussels today to discuss how to protect Muslim enclaves designated as ‘ safe areas ’ with troops and air power . |
| 12 | AS the BBC 's board of governors meets in London today to pronounce formally on the future of the corporation 's director-general , and perhaps that of its own chair , BBC Scotland has become preoccupied with pressing problems of its own . |
| 13 | THE Belfast Telegraph today obtained a copy of a letter from US President Bill Clinton to a former Congressman who arrives in Ireland tomorrow to campaign for a peace envoy to be sent to the province . |
| 14 | Leaders of the Councils , none of them Tory controlled , have been meeting in London today to plan a campaign . |
| 15 | The Jockey Club was meeting in London yesterday to discuss the findings of an inquiry led by Mr Justice Connell |
| 16 | Er France interv intervened in Spain initially to put down a liberal revolt . |
| 17 | Froissart suggests that Edward intervened in Brittany merely to distract Philip , and there may be something in this ; but it was also important for him to protect the sea route from England to Aquitaine around the Finistère peninsula , and above all the allegiance of the Duke of Brittany would be a great prize in Edward 's campaign to undermine Philip VI 's authority in France . |
| 18 | Since a youthful Murray had n't moved to London primarily to find the bass player 's Eldorado , how had he become involved in the live music scene ? |
| 19 | He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ . |
| 20 | A SPECIAL visit will be made to Islay today to present a major architectural award for the conversion of an old whisky warehouse into a swimming pool . |
| 21 | ANDRE CAMARA/Reuter Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , arrives at Westminster yesterday to present his white paper reviewing the coal industry 's future |
| 22 | He hesitated , perhaps waiting for Peter politely to disagree . |
| 23 | However , Gen. Lewis MacKenzie , commander of UN operations in Sarajevo said on July 21 that 40,000 UN troops were needed in Sarajevo alone to keep the peace and that all sides were breaking " the international rules of war " . |
| 24 | But would it not seem natural for the people who were helped to escape from Hitler now to help those who are resisting Saddam Hussein , and to understand the desire for liberty of the Balts ? |
| 25 | FAR FROM the drama of special agents in helicopters swooping over remote Colombian mountainsides , experts from the world 's richest countries meet in Paris today to improve what many consider to be the most effective means of combating the drugs trade — hitting the traffickers ' pockets . |
| 26 | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY finance ministers meet in Brussels today to seek a way out of the impasse over harmonisation of VAT and excise duty rates which , if unresolved , could make the 1992 single market unworkable . |
| 27 | The leading groups meet in Vienna periodically to bring the work together . |
| 28 | Resignations are expected when the DLV meet in Frankfurt today to discuss the aftermath of the Krabbe affair . |
| 29 | Senhor Jose Cutileiro of Portugal , EC special envoy , arrived in Sarajevo yesterday to reconvene talks between the warring parties . |
| 30 | FORMER boxing champion Muhammad Ali , left , arrived in Britain yesterday to see his life story unfold on stage . |