Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italian diva , whose operatic performances he faithfully attended from La Scala to the Met — for four months ? |
| 2 | The shooting of Yusef Hawkins last year while looking for a car in another mainly white area of the city led X-Clan to organise ‘ The Taking Of The Brooklyn Bridge ’ , when 10,000 black youths occupied one of the bridges connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York in a living roadblock . |
| 3 | When they leave here they will probably stroll down the Rue Catinat to the riverside . |
| 4 | Secondly , it conjures the Wild West by virtue of its position as the middle of a line of three forts , Fort William to the south , and Fort George to the north . |
| 5 | Appreciating that the RAF would be playing a dominant role in manning Britain 's nuclear deterrent , Eden had appointed Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Dickson to the post . |
| 6 | This exciting prospect , a bequest from the late Jim Joel to the Queen Mother , looks set to give his new owner a memorable season following four wins last term culminating in the National Hunt Chase at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 7 | One authority on the evolution of the working-class quotes Friedrich Engels to the effect that , |
| 8 | a ) The need for further attention to the footway on the north side of Lanark Road from the junction of Baberton Avenue to a point east of the Candy Box where , even after a moderate fall of rain , pools form . |
| 9 | Young & Rubicam is hotly tipped to have won the £11m pan-European Pirelli account , beating Saatchi & Saatchi and Woollams Moira Gaskin O'Malley to the business . |
| 10 | With the addition of the two seats held by Moledet , the coalition now held 66 seats in the 120-member Knesset [ see p. 37872 for addition of four-member Agudat Yisrael to the coalition in November 1990 ] . |
| 11 | On 24th May 1855 , Lawyer , Old Joseph , The Wolf ( Utsinmalikin ) , Three Feathers ( Metat Waptass ) and Red Wolf ( Hemene Ilppilp ) led 2500 Nez Perce to the council grounds , where Stevens ' 100-strong entourage was encamped with other tribes of the Columbia basin . |
| 12 | Whipple insisted upon seeing Looking Glass , and as Bird Alighting returned to his chief 's lodge , a civilian suddenly shot a watching Nez Perce to the ground . |
| 13 | When Captain John and Old George returned to say that Miles wished to have no more war , and would return the Nez Perce to the reservation , Joseph became convinced that he was now being asked to negotiate not a surrender , but a peace . |
| 14 | — Frankie Taylor to the guest of honour at the British Boxing Writers ' Club annual dinner . |
| 15 | From the fantasy of Disneyland to the monumental Grand Canyon , the neon lights of Las Vegas to the bushland of Yosemite National Park , this region bursts with excitement and glamour . |
| 16 | Brook Street Bureau sent Sue Hill to an interview for a job as a telesales clerk with a publishing company last autumn and , after months of rejections , she was offered the position . |
| 17 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 18 | He should be used to them by now because they had become a frequent occurrence during the past few months , particularly since Martin had been bringing Miss Crosbie to the house . |
| 19 | Another import from Jamaica was Rastafarianism , which was a mystical cult based on the accession of Haille Selassie to the throne of Ethiopia and concerning the downfall of the white colonial races ( Babylon ) . |
| 20 | Eleven Aberdeen players were laid low by the virus , and Rangers lost their international goalkeeper Andy Goram to the bug . |
| 21 | situated between Strand Lane and Surrey Street to the south of the Strand , west London , it is now the property of the National Trust . |
| 22 | ‘ I was saying we can arrange to move Miss Duncan to the hospital for a while , just to make a few precautionary tests . ’ |
| 23 | Like virgins to the sacrificial altar , they followed Molly Malone to the place where it all happened ; where Wrens must learn to live in a men 's world because now the war was nearer to them than it had ever been . |
| 24 | Mr Balfour had ridden on a motor car from Downing Street to the House of Commons , the start being witnessed by several members of the government . |
| 25 | Mr Harper , from Richmond , North Yorkshire , says his letter has been sent from ‘ pillar to post ’ from Downing Street to the Department of Environment and on to the Health Department without a word from Mr Major . |
| 26 | Mr Harper wanted Mr Major to stop the closures but says his letter has been sent from ‘ pillar to post ’ from Downing Street to the Department of Environment and on to the Health Department without a word from Mr Major . |
| 27 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 28 | They could just see the Maggon Mountains to the West . |
| 29 | ‘ I wonder why you keep going to sea when you know it 's dangerous ’ ( quoted by B. J. Wagner , 1976 , p. 59 ) , muses Mrs. Heathcote to a class of children who are into a drama about pirates — and she from then on carries at the back of her mind the possibility that through the subsequent experience these children might understand something of what drives people to face dangers . |
| 30 | One surviving example is the fountain built by the Athenian millionaire Herodes Atticus in the sanctuary at Olympia ( Greece ) ; another is the handsome gymnasium given by Publius Vedius Antoninus to the city of Ephesus , the provincial capital of Asia . |