Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the restaurants is the Savini , Milan 's most prestigious , where opera-goers congregate after a performance to while away the rest of the evening in expensive surroundings . |
| 2 | The 21-year-old from Redruth , Cornwall , was arrested on Christmas Eve after a tip-off to police . |
| 3 | After a tip-off to police the baby was recovered and he was reunited with his mother at a West Midlands hospital four hours after he was taken . |
| 4 | His luck ran out in the early hours of March 4th when French Customs controls identified Sea Rover homing in towards French waters at Ushant after a passage to North Africa for another cargo . |
| 5 | It was only after a trip to Italy in early 1932 , to see how fascism operated there , and with the support of Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail , that Mosley renewed his efforts to form a new party designed to instil discipline into the nation , to generate a ‘ classless brotherhood ’ and to meet the challenge of communism . |
| 6 | Then this summer his condition deteriorated after a trip to Cyprus . |
| 7 | Mr Pell issued the report after a trip to Pakistan in August and talks with Pakistani leaders and leaders of the US-Pakistan-backed provisional government . |
| 8 | But after a call to ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey he settled on an £850 fine . |
| 9 | After a visit to Somalia on Aug. 10-12 , the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews said that he would argue for increased European Community ( EC ) aid to the country . |
| 10 | The weaknesses of the NHS were also well-known ( see , for example , IHSM 1988 ; Culyer 1988 ; Klein and Day 1988 ) , but the analysis and prescription of the American economist Alain Enthoven , written after a visit to Britain in 1985 , was particularly influential ( Enthoven 1985 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Each ( minister ) is absolute master in his department ’ , wrote the Emperor Joseph II to his mother after a visit to Paris in 1777 , ‘ but fears to be , not controlled , but displaced , by the sovereign … |
| 12 | In the following years , however , Haines turned his attention to workhouses as a panacea for national ills , after a visit to Holland , where he admired Dutch methods of employing the poor . |
| 13 | Travelling home on the Queen Mary after a visit to Washington and discussions with President Eisenhower , he despatched a telegram to the post-Stalin leadership in Moscow proposing a meeting . |
| 14 | Similarly Labour 's minister of defence , Denis Healey , an early exponent of Britain 's continuing police-keeping presence East of Suez , had reported with apparent satisfaction to the cabinet on 11 December 1964 ( after a visit to Washington ) that the Americans wanted Britain to keep footholds — not huge bases — in Hong Kong , Malaya and the Persian Gulf . |
| 15 | Speaking after a visit to South Africa , Ellemann-Jensen concluded that the security forces were not in a position to supervise a democratic transition . |
| 16 | The elderly founder of the charity helping children in the back streets of Calcutta is making a brief visit to Britain after a visit to Ireland . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1820 , after a visit to Russia the previous year to promote his recently translated New Testament , which eventually saw the light of day in 1847 , Vuk again approached Miloš , this time offering to teach the ruler to read and write . |
| 18 | One of Russians means of exerting its power was the Iranian cossack Brigade , which the Shah had founded after a visit to Russia and which had Russian officers . |
| 19 | And Michael 's Nook near Ambleside is another shrine to good food and an ideal spot to retreat to after a visit to Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere . |
| 20 | Speaking after a visit to Orkney this week , Harry Garland , BASW Scottish convener , said it ‘ would only lead to further distress for all concerned , and is not likely to lead to any clarification of the issues ’ . |
| 21 | The farm , organically cultivated since the 1940s , can support all the family and gives employment to local people , says Judy Steele , after a visit to Borth . |
| 22 | After a visit to Iran in October Franc Horvat , the federal Secretary for Foreign Economic Relations , said that Iran could well become Yugoslavia 's most important trading partner among the developing countries . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , in 1831 , after a visit to Wordsworth , John Stuart Mill was impressed by the amount that he — a liberal Utilitarian by upbringing — agreed with the ‘ hardened Tory ’ . |
| 24 | Lukanov met French Prime Minister Michel Rocard in Paris on Feb. 28-March 1 , two weeks after a visit to France by Dimitrov . |
| 25 | I realised the similarity between a horse and someone learning a language after a visit to France : people sometimes had to repeat phrases before all the words clicked home . |
| 26 | It was possible to dissent from all that , especially after a visit to New York . |
| 27 | After a visit to Nairobi by Hussein Abdurahman Matan , the Somali Defence Minister , the two countries agreed on Sept. 29 to take action against poachers and " bandits " in the border area . |
| 28 | Boro could entertain Barnsley on Monday , April 12 , after a visit to Tranmere on the previous Friday night . |
| 29 | The distinguished critic of imperialism , E.D. Morel , wrote after a visit to Nigeria in 1910 that the administration of the North was a ‘ tour de force ’ and revealed that , ‘ with all her faults , Britain does still breed sons worthy of the highest traditions of the race ’ . |
| 30 | A correspondent from the Financial Times reported after a visit to Battambang on Jan. 24 that the city " is not , and has not been under siege " . |