Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from explorers and travellers , one of the first Englishmen to settle in Madeira was William Bolton , in 1695 , when he took advantage of the Act of Charles 11 which prohibited the export of goods grown or manufactured in Europe to the West Indies and American Colonies , unless shipped from British ports in British ships , with Madeira specifically excluded from its terms . |
| 2 | From working-class childhoods certainly there are memories of farm holidays , or travelling from Liverpool to Sheffield to see grandparents — but they are unusual . |
| 3 | The main railway service on the Emmental route from Bern to Luzern , Timetable No 460 ( or Thun via Konolfingen to Luzern ) has stations at Langnau , Trubschachen , Wiggen , Escholzmatt , Schupfheim , Entlebuch , Wolhusen and Werthenstein . |
| 4 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
| 5 | Principally these occur on Pevensey Levels , part of the Low Weald , and on that part of Romney Marsh that lies within Sussex to the east of Rye . |
| 6 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 7 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 8 | In fact he had been advised to take cheap and expeditious transit on one of the small four-crewed colliers that sailed from Tyne to Thames , which journey , depending on wind and tide , took less time . |
| 9 | It is now known , however , that as with the plants , the non-marine bivalves of the American Mid-West are very like those that extend from Ireland to Russia . |
| 10 | Today , kd lang is changing her tune again , forsaking country music for torch songs and giving free range to a voice that reaches from Alberta to Berlin . |
| 11 | You only have to snip out the listings in the local paper on Saturday , a column filled with auctions , sales , markets and fairs in an area that stretches from Bath to Frome , Shepton Mallet , Devizes and Wells . |
| 12 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 13 | Erm ironically I was one of those that went from Essex to Manchester and I did live up there for a couple of years but er decided to come back . |
| 14 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 15 | These varied from what was essentially the retention of the existing system with a few modifications , to an option referred to as a Commerce Railway consisting of about 16 per cent of the existing network ( meaning that to travel from Manchester to Leeds one would need to go via London ) . |
| 16 | The most famous of all is the one that runs from Osmotherley to Raven Scar known as the Lyke Wake Walk , along which corpses were carried forty miles . |
| 17 | There are many unexplained events on the Keighley and Worth Valley line that runs from Keighley to Oxenhope five miles further up the branch . |
| 18 | Ken Schofield , executive director of the European tour , said in announcing details of a circuit that runs from mid-January to November and includes tournaments in Dubai , Singapore and Morocco : ‘ Our overall target is £24.75m , an increase of 12.5% . |
| 19 | The doctor came , and arranged for Esther to be re-admitted to the gynaecological ward of the hospital so that she could continue nursing the baby , if possible . |
| 20 | What 's yellow and white and goes from London to Birmingham at 125mph ? |
| 21 | The throne is thought to have been made in Constantinople and given by Justinian to his viceroy Maximian . |
| 22 | The following year I was offered a house in town and moved into Stornoway to be nearer my work . |
| 23 | This unit was formed in 1968 and moved from London to temporary quarters in Edinburgh in 1973 , at first at 13 Braefoot Terrace and later overflowing to accommodation at 9 South St David 's Street . |
| 24 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 25 | Entry to Abbot 's Yard car park will be through the archway off Bondgate and exit via Skinnergate to Bondgate . |
| 26 | And then you see I gave up my home in Liverpool and came to Anglesey to my people . |
| 27 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 28 | Over a period of five days teams of people walked , ran , cycled , rode , paddled and sailed from Inverness to the Western Isles , taking with them a marble stone — a 1,200 year old saintly relic of St Ronan . |
| 29 | Champagne is the most northerly of the AOC ( Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée ) wine regions of France , lying approximately I50 kilometres north-east of Paris , and separated from Belgium to the north by the hills and dense forests of the Ardennes . |
| 30 | They are normally chopped and fed from December to mid-February . |