Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] from [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but it skims across the surface of the water and it 's very quick , it only takes half an hour to go from Ramsgate to Dover . |
| 2 | Some of the facts and figures connected with the 500 metre-long structure are mind-boggling — 65,000 tonnes of steelwork , 220,000 tonnes of concrete [ enough to fill a queue of cement mixers stretching from London to Manchester ] , 1,800 miles of electrical and instrument cable and enough pipework to stretch from Sellafield to London . |
| 3 | In detail the proposal called on the Iraqi leadership " to announce without further delay Iraq 's intention to withdraw from Kuwait under a specific timetable and to begin an immediate , rapid and massive withdrawal " . |
| 4 | With some difficulty I managed to get a permit to travel from Parma in a bus which went up into the hills to Lagrimone ; once there , I would walk to the house of a Signor Ugolotti , some distance from the village . |
| 5 | On May 4 the FRY Presidency ordered its citizens ( i.e. of Serbia and Montenegro ) in the JNA to withdraw from Bosnia-Hercegovina within 15 days . |
| 6 | Mott , Hay & Anderson , the tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan 's refusal to move from London to Newcastle to be unreasonable . |
| 7 | I ca n't see Book jumping at the chance to drive from Bristol to Carlisle and back in time for training next day , either ! |
| 8 | He talked wildly about shame and guilt , and how he would give part of the money he 'd inherited to his wife and to you , and use the rest to escape from England with the girl he loved . |
| 9 | Win a chance to sail from Southampton to Rio de Janeiro with the British Steel Challenge . |
| 10 | Following his failure to grab a slice of Dan-Air , he announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to set up a small European airline if Virgin can get permission to fly from Heathrow to Brussels , Paris and Maastricht . |
| 11 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 12 | It was all the more remarkable given Franco 's condemnation , years earlier , of the loss of the last remnants of the Spanish empire , as he saw it , without a fight , and his disapproval of General Primo de Rivera 's decision to withdraw from Morocco in the 1920s . |
| 13 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 14 | Her father did n't live with us and I was out of the country , so she had to cross the frontier illegally , swimming the river to get from Guatemala to Mexico . |
| 15 | Press reports cited evidence of his involvement with the USA , including his use of a US military helicopter to travel from Beirut to Cyprus in 1986 and his involvement in the release of three US hostages , the Rev. Benjamin Weir , freed on Sept. 14 , 1985 , and Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen , released on July 26 and Nov. 2 , 1986 , respectively , all of whom turned out to have been traded for arms . |
| 16 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 17 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 18 | Aimed at young families , small business users and aspiring professionals , the car is the first new model to emerge from Rover since the 800 series in 1986 . |
| 19 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 20 | Present Laughter would have made theatre history as the first production to go from Belfast into the West End . |
| 21 | In 1956 the British forces had appeared to take an unconscionable time to get from Cyprus to Port Said . |