Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] to [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In his early travels to London he met various intellectuals and literary people such as Joseph Addison , Alexander Pope , and Jonathan Swift .
2 When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so .
3 Edward overworked in his lonely digs — ‘ the first time I ever truly worked ’ — and in these early letters to Hooton he discovered new qualities in his nature .
4 Sandwiched between these trips to China she investigated child labour in Egypt in 1930 under the auspices of the International Association for Social Progress and the ILO .
5 On his previous visits to Larksoken he had seen Martyr 's Cottage spread out beneath him when he and his aunt had stood surveying the headland from the small top room under the cone of the mill .
6 In these letters to Harry he frequently mentions his excessive response to beauty in men , women , and children .
7 If Putt is in the habit of making frequent journeys to London he 'll have already rid himself of such incriminating items there .
8 The most recent improvements to Symantec it can recognize over 1,400 viruses in the US National Computer Security Association ( NCSA ) virus library , and can cope with the troublesome Mutation Engine viruses .
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