Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER working on opposite sides in the American presidential election , James Corville and his wife Mary Matalin have taken a romantic trip on the Orient Express from Paris to Venice . |
| 2 | Norwich are unchanged but may move Ian Culverhouse from full-back to sweeper . |
| 3 | Such cosseting made passengers feel they were very special and the airlines did all they could to encourage distinguished people to fly with them Imperial Airways carried HM King Feisal from Baghdad to Gaza in 1927 and later took to publishing monthly lists of their important passengers . |
| 4 | Stuart : ‘ My jacket is by Colin Harvey from Brother to Brother in Sheffield . ’ |
| 5 | A torrent of foul , icy water drenched Miss Hardbroom from head to toe , followed a second later by the bucket which crashed over her head with a doom-laden clang . |
| 6 | WEU Foreign Ministers , meeting in the margins of the summit , adopted a declaration which included commitments to ( i ) elaborate and implement decision and actions of the Union with defence implications ; ( ii ) invite EC countries not then WEU members ( i.e. Denmark and Greece — which were NATO members — and neutral Ireland ) to join ; and ( iii ) move the WEU headquarters from London to Brussels . |
| 7 | In the north , Charlemagne 's empire covered Slovenia — the land of the Slovenes — the mid-Sava valley and the northern Adriatic coast from Istria to the neighbourhood of Šibenik . |
| 8 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 9 | In A.D. 409 it was established at Ravenna and this area of the Adriatic coast from Ancona to the Istrian peninsula — designated the Ravennate — became the connecting link between Constantinople and the western half of its empire . |
| 10 | He no longer drives a two-tone Rolls , no longer smokes or drinks , and he 's changed the colours of his Victorian house in Primrose Hill from black to white . |
| 11 | But perhaps the most interesting extension that can be made to a Murten visit is to make the very short journey of only 8km ( 5 miles ) either by road No 1 , or by rail on the same line as from Kerzers to Murten The destination is the small town of Avenches , which stands on a hill just north of the bypassing main road No1 which runs across the Mittelland plateau from Bern to Lausanne . |
| 12 | We had to organise it so that we could move it on a Saturday night from Manchester to Oxford and get it ready for a full orchestra , circus , and technical rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon . |
| 13 | French resolve against Libyan-inspired terrorism , which was in doubt during the US raid in 1986 , has been stiffened by Libya 's action in blowing up the UTA flight from Brazzaville to Paris on Sept 19 , 1989 , in which 171 died . |
| 14 | Nelson is flagging appropriate titles in its catalogue as ‘ self-access ’ , there are one or two new publishing names dipping toes in the swirling waters of EFL , and during the close season there have been some author-transfers , including David Vale from CUP to Heinemann and Alan Maley to Penguin . |
| 15 | Samo 's empire , about which little is known , held sway over the Sava valley from Zagreb to the Julian Alps , and northward from Ljubljana across Austria , Bohemia and Moravia into Saxony . |
| 16 | Christine , however , knew very well that it was n't the distance that kept Miss Miggs from travelling to Gridford , but the railway fare . |
| 17 | A list of the network members , who represent 28 countries principally engaged in cross-border M&A activities , is circulated by Richard Agutter from time to time . |
| 18 | The plane was flying the Travolta family from Florida to Maine when it suddenly lost all its electrical instruments . |
| 19 | Ian Botham is walking the 22 miles of Devon coast from Topsham to Sidmouth . |
| 20 | It was no coincidence that the largest CND march from Aldermaston to Trafalgar Square took place that Easter . |
| 21 | I had expressed concern that after the long journey , probably spent standing in the corridor , I might look rather haggard , so the wearing of a yashmak was suggested , especially as Leslie would be used to seeing this item of female camouflage in the souks and cafés of North Africa from Alexandria to Algiers . |
| 22 | Manufacturers continue to demand more help from the Government in the shape of increased capital allowances ( already raised by Chancellor Nigel Lamont from 25% to 40% in the last Autumn Statement ) , some form of relief from advance corporation tax and cheaper export insurance . |
| 23 | The dying sun turned the hills that ringed Loch Ardneavie from green to misty grey , and trees cast long purple shadows . |
| 24 | Blessed be the foreign correspondent who can fly from Beirut to Athens , therefore , and in the same day pick up an El Al flight from Athens to Tel Aviv and land at Ben Gurion airport and travel — faster even than the old direct taxi route from prewar Beirut — to Jerusalem . |
| 25 | This is only a glance at the complexity and detail of the work 's program ; full delectation of its supreme subversity means a visit to Battery Park , the City 's hugely agreeable landscaped park and esplanade along the Hudson River from Chambers to Barclay streets . |
| 26 | They searched the flat as detectives drove student Simon Murrell from Liverpool to London for questioning about the Wimbledon Common murder of ex-model Rachel . |
| 27 | Van Gogh stayed with the Rev. Jones from July to December 1876 and continued to write copiously and regularly to his beloved brother , Theo , also to his parents . |
| 28 | The basic network was supplemented by the opening of 2 further lines by the Llanelly Railway from Llandeilo to Carmarthen in 1864 to 1865 ; and from Pontarddulais to Swansea Victoria in 1866 to 1867 . |
| 29 | Experiments and modern calculations suggest that the Sutton Hoo type boat could average a speed of 3 knots for little more than six hours , so that a crossing of the North Sea from Holland to East Anglia could have been achieved in about 14 days , although if sails were available the time would be considerably less ( Green 1963 ) . |
| 30 | Assignments such as this — and the recruitment of Colin Marshall from Avis to the newly-privatised British Airways for Lord King by Miles Broadbent — made an important contribution to Russell Reynolds ' global earnings , and especially to the growing personal wealth of Reynolds himself , still holding a 60% stake in the equity . |