Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke off his visit to Poland on Friday and flew home to deal with a dramatic political situation after East Germany opened its borders to the West . |
| 2 | However , the initiative was welcomed by Jordan , Yemen and the PLO and went on to serve as one of the main diplomatic planks of the pro-Iraqi Arab bloc . |
| 3 | Long ago , when men were still fighting with clubs and wicker shields , the High Elves had mastered the proud , powerful horses of Ulthuan and learned how to employ them as steeds . |
| 4 | Of course , the star of Happy Days was Ron Howard , who played teen everynerd Richie Cunningham and went on to direct Parenthood , Backdraft and the recent Oirish immigrant western Far And Away . |
| 5 | On page 809 of this issue , Woodhead and colleagues report new isotope data on volcanic rocks from seamounts southeast of Pitcairn Island that seem dramatically to confirm this theory . |
| 6 | Owen started taking Jane and Zeinab across to join them but on the way they ran into a group of journalists whom Zeinab knew and got into conversation with them . |
| 7 | But there was one critic , Kenneth Tynan , to be the defining critic of British theatre in the Fifties and Sixties , who took his wife Elaine Dundy up to Stratford and went backstage to congratulate , to talk , later to drink . |
| 8 | He came back to England and seemed about to succumb to pneumonia but , ten days after his return , he went on another visit to Paris , on this occasion to receive an honorary degree from the University there . |
| 9 | After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human . |
| 10 | We mailed the six packages recorded delivery on the 14th of January and sat down to wait . |
| 11 | In the Cox Report we repeated the first sentence quoted above from Kingman and went on to make the following recommendation : |
| 12 | She threw an agonised , reproachful look at Ruth and seemed about to run out of the room , but with three words Ernest stopped her . |
| 13 | He reached the Fiat and leaned over to peer through the driver 's window . |
| 14 | Rymer , of Willowcroft , Wallasey , was formally accused of attempting to cause to be administered noxious substances Atenolol , Temazepam , Bendrofluazide and Coproxamol thereby to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm to a boy on Wednesday June 9 . |
| 15 | She gained the best School Certificate results at her school in Norfolk and went on to take science subjects for Higher Certificate . |
| 16 | It could be dressed with compost or FYM and shut up to grow from early April ( not always possible on a well-stocked farm in a cold spring ! ) . |
| 17 | He dominated an opening stand of 101 with Stewart and went on to add 53 and 73 for the next two wickets with Graeme Hick and Neil Fairbrother . |
| 18 | Jane flashed a grin at Patrick and turned away to open the door . |
| 19 | The displacements are found by selecting a plan view of PARTA and zooming in to observe only the full rotation of the cam centre about the axis of the shaft . |
| 20 | Feeling pleased that I had at least negotiated the day 's essentials , and the afternoon being well advanced , I thought it would be good to have a more leisurely look round Wenceslas Square and find somewhere to eat . |
| 21 | This legendary descent begins from the Grands Montets and goes down to join the lower part of the Vallee Blanche . |
| 22 | Wheal Concord , at Blackwater , near Redruth , closed down in November and has yet to reopen . |
| 23 | The sergeant 's eyes widened , and he slid out of the Land Rover and stood back to let Jamie out . |
| 24 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 25 | She nodded to McLeish and started gently to bustle her mother away . |
| 26 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 27 | Beyond Broadford , the region of the Red Hills is bypassed and after rounding the head of Loch Ainort , the road comes alongside Loch Sligachan and turns inland to reveal a first sighting of the mystic spires of the Black Cuillin , the grandest mountains in all Britain — a journey of twenty-five miles from the ferry . |
| 28 | Last year , she was the yuppie careerist Marion in Steven Jeffreys ' award-winning Valued Friends at Hampstead and went on to lend credibility to the Royal Court 's fairly ludicrous Sleeping Nightie . |
| 29 | For the residential section , she travelled to Cumbria and learnt how to sail her first time on a boat . |
| 30 | The whole army was then to advance on London , crossing the Thames to the west at Hampton Court , Kingston , Kew and Putney and moving round to occupy the northern heights of Hampstead and Highgate , to cut off London from relief from that direction . |