Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sent away to boarding school at Ampleforth and from there went to Trinity College , Cambridge , to read architecture . |
| 2 | From Afdam I took the train to Dire Dawa and from there rode to Harar , through mountains that were beautiful and green after recent rain , following the route my parents had taken in 1909 . |
| 3 | Recalling no doubt the fate of Vera and Orton Chirwa , kidnapped near the border 10 years ago and still imprisoned , Chihana bluffed his way back to Lilongwe and from there flew to Lusaka . |
| 4 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 5 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 6 | Galliéni at once wrote to Joffre , calling for a full report . |
| 7 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |