Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1861 Howell returned to England and was replaced by two recruits from Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Soon after 1614 Evesham returned to London and began to produce a range of works for sites across the country and for various patrons , some of whom were papists . |
| 3 | The sponsorship money for the 30 squares amounted to £150,000 and paid all the production and advertising costs for the game . |
| 4 | In 1985 turnover amounted to £69,000 . |
| 5 | On June 12 Walesa announced to leaders of the Solidarity trade union that he was ready to use force if necessary to prevent the economic situation deteriorating into social unrest and anarchy . |
| 6 | Christianity came to England up a river , when St Augustine and his forty monks travelled to Canterbury up the Kentish Stour , ‘ singing all the way ’ . |
| 7 | On Jan. 30 Li travelled to Davos ( Switzerland ) to attend the opening of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum . |
| 8 | Last week 2 detectives flew to Turkey to talk to her and she volunteered to return to Britain . |
| 9 | Twenty-one of the 53 schemes led to CSE examinations , six of these having been devised initially by LEAs . |
| 10 | In 1971 Giles returned to Britain to become senior lecturer in surgery at Leeds University . |
| 11 | The first real impact of the 1986 Act came to governors with the requirements to produce a formal report to parents and hold an annual parents ' meeting . |
| 12 | In August 1990 , Dumas visited Moscow ; in October Gorbachev 's visit to Rambouillet resulted in the signature of a friendship and co-operation treaty and a new assistance agreement [ see pp. 37758 ; 37789 ] ; and in May 1991 Mitterrand travelled to Moscow [ see p. 38198 ] . |
| 13 | The success of his three operas for Italy , Artaserse ( 1760 ) , Catone in Utica ( 1761 ) , and Alessandro nell' Indie ( 1762 ) , prompted an invitation to compose two works for the King 's Theatre , London , and in 1762 Bach travelled to London , where he spent the remaining twenty years of his life as the dominant musical figure in the city , thereby earning the sobriquet ‘ the London Bach ’ . |
| 14 | In July 1338 Edward crossed to Brabant and established himself at Antwerp . |
| 15 | At an audience at the Imperial Palace on Sept. 7 Shevardnadze extended to Emperor Akihito an invitation to visit the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Surrey batsman Monte Lynch 's 1991 benefit amounted to £107,000 . |
| 17 | In 1963 Earp returned to England , Lawrie was transferred to the North Lowlands Unit and Johnstone became the District Geologist for the Highlands and Islands . |
| 18 | The Anglo.American Cataloguing Rules , prepared jointly by the Library Association , the American Library Association , the Canadian Library Association and the Library of Congress , were published in 1967 with some sixty-six pages devoted to rules for non-book materials , and dissatisfaction with these rules produced further publications from the Canadian Library Association ( Riddle 1970 ; Weihs , Lewis and Macdonald 1973 ) , the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction of the National Education Association ( 1968 ) , and the very impressive LA/NCET rules issued by the Library Association and the ( then ) National Council for Educational Technology ( 1973 ) . |
| 19 | In 1828 Hickman appealed to Charles X , king of France , for the collaboration of the king 's medical schools with his experiments on insensibility produced by ‘ introduction of certain gases into the lungs ’ , which were ridiculed by the A.Académie de Médecine . |
| 20 | On Jan. 26 Iraq agreed to unblock payments owed to Italian companies working in Iraq , and Ruggiero said that contracts worth $500,000,000 between the countries were " virtually already signed " . |
| 21 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
| 22 | About 1,200 fascists marched to Olympia on the day and the meeting was attended by about 10,000 potential supporters and 2,000 ‘ blackshirts ’ , half of whom were acting as stewards . |
| 23 | Whitney and Hughes both took four wickets , and all 10 wickets fell to catches , as in the Australian first innings : only once previously ( WI v India , Bridgetown , 1982–83 ) have the first 20 wickets in a Test fallen to catches , and the eventual 33 catches in this match was a new Test record ( as was the fact that no-one was bowled — a first for a completed Test ) . |
| 24 | When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them . |
| 25 | Elson and Robbins had a turnover of £15.5m in the year to 31 December compared to WB 's £3.6m . |
| 26 | In the summer of 1904 Alf returned to Roker Park for a club record fee of £520 ( a record which has since been eclipsed ) , but he only stayed at Sunderland for seven months . |
| 27 | Three awards went to Murphy Brown , the comedy series attacked by vice-president Dan Quayle for featuring an unmarried mother and lacking ‘ family values ’ . |
| 28 | Between 1736 and 1738 Ramsay journeyed to Italy for an extended period of study , training under Francesco Imperiale in Rome and Francesco Solimena in Naples . |
| 29 | In 1738 Bartram journeyed to Williamsburg in Virginia with a letter of introduction from Collinson to John Custis : ‘ In the vegetable kingdom perhaps you will find him more knowing in that science than any you have met with . |
| 30 | England were beaten by Spain in Madrid in 1929 , and in 1932 Austria came to Stamford Bridge and only narrowly lost 4–3 . |