Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a story of a Hercules which left Ascension Island to go to the Falklands . |
| 2 | But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year . |
| 3 | ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partners Ian Carruthers , Stephen Farish and Andrew Baxter , beat off a spirited recovery from a young Ely team to scramble to the fours title by a single shot at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray . |
| 4 | ‘ Your mother told Sergeant Curtis that Riddle left home at half-past seven on Friday evening to go to the yard ; was that unusual ? ’ |
| 5 | While their three sons were young , a favourite treat was being taken by their father , one by one , to Paddington Station to listen to the Great Western Railway Band which played there on Sunday mornings . |
| 6 | Jim Blackie , 41 , remembers catching the bus from his home in Gateshead every Friday night to go to the Oxford in the Sixties ‘ Everybody used to walk around in circles looking for a girl . |
| 7 | The last sentence was the cue for Miss Horsbrugh to announce to the House of Commons in April that the 10% Cut would be withdrawn and a Committee of Enquiry into adult education established instead . |
| 8 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 9 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 10 | So we 're looking for North Yorkshire to play to the same rules basically . |
| 11 | Earlier that year , at around the time of the drafting of the play , Eliot had invited Jane Harrison to contribute to the Criterion . |
| 12 | This will cause the LM curve to shift to the right , as shown in Fig. 6 . |
| 13 | Evans has admitted buying petrol that night , but says White attacked the couple , tied them up and forced him and Sheila Stroud to drive to the clifftop . |
| 14 | And erm my used to tell me about er when they were serving their time , all the apprentices used to clump their work on a Monday afternoon to go to the panopticon And at that particular time , they had turns on and if they did n't like them they pelted them with tomatoes and oranges and they had a big hook for for pulling them off the stage . |
| 15 | His death enabled Mr Beltrami to Apply to the Scottish Law Society for a waiver of the confidentiality he had observed in relation to McGuinness 's admissions to the Ayr crime ; and he enclosed a statement from Mrs McGuinness that her husband had also admitted the crime and Waddell 's Participation in it , to her . |
| 16 | Physic News told Mr Hayden to talk to the ghost as if to help him , but no response was ever forthcoming . |
| 17 | Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown called on Mr Lilley to come to the Commons to give more details . |
| 18 | Yesterday the Governor of Hong Kong , Sir David Wilson , said he was ‘ concerned at the action the Chinese have taken ’ , but argued that the decision to allow Mr Yang to travel to the West had not breached the 1982 agreement . |
| 19 | The company relocated its premises to Huntingdon and asked Mr Rose to move to the new premises . |
| 20 | The Blackpool meeting was the first between Mr Savimbi and a British minister , underlining the importance Britain attaches to persuading Mr Savimbi to return to the conference table . |
| 21 | The term ‘ radiation genocide ’ is commonly used in Kiev and Minsk newspapers to refer to the accident . |
| 22 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 23 | The debate was on a motion put forward by the Co-operative Resource Centre , a conservative group of councillors , requesting the Hong Kong authorities to convey to the UK government the " views of the general public " on the issue of the next governor . |
| 24 | Last night , Mr Krenz told a Communist Party rally that the new travel regulations , allowing East Germans to go to the West whenever they wish , should be taken as proof that the government was ‘ serious about the policy of renewal ’ . |
| 25 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 26 | That Saturday when ( the Iranian contact ) was in Washington , I flew up to Camp David to talk to the President , and I showed him the ( weapons ) list , and he said , ‘ Why are you thinking so small ? ’ |
| 27 | The Commission subsequently issued an interim measures decision which , amongst other things , required Akzo 's UK subsidiary to return to the profit levels that it had been applying before the alleged threats were made and implemented . |
| 28 | They had to be up early on Sunday morning to get to the station to travel to the next venue which was inevitably the other side of the country . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not , but I 'm sending Curnow to Carbis Bay to talk to the old man . |
| 30 | Mitsui Computer has launched a major campaign to attract Sun 3 , Sun-386i and older Sparcstation users to upgrade to the Sparcstation 10 machines due soon , backed by what Mitsui terms an ‘ aggressive ’ pricing policy which has a ‘ no penalty ’ upgrade path to the latest Sun Microsystems machines . |