Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Later on the Paignton to Kingswear branch was closed by BR and was bought up by Dart Valley who obviously did not wish to find another competing railway only 10 miles away .
2 Visit the ancient temples and the tombs of the Pharaohs as your cruise ship sails down the Nile to Esna , Luxor , the West Bank and El Amarna before arriving back in Cairo ready for your flight home the following day .
3 The town 's Labour MP , Mo Mowlam , and Langbaurgh councillors Brian Roberts and Len Douglass sailed down the Thames to Westminster Bridge accompanied by a flotilla of sailing dinghies .
4 The society tried to take over the Dunblane to Callendar line , then the Longniddry to Haddington branch and , finally , the Alloa and Dollar line .
5 Thus , the total quantity of pollution is regulated , but firms that can cheaply reduce pollution have an incentive to do so , and sell off the ERC to firms for which pollution reduction is more expensive .
6 She was worried the water , if unable to flow up the Colne to Colchester , will be forced to find its level in St Osyth .
7 Cos I picked up the Chester to Wrexham one instead of the Snowdonia one .
8 The EC also agreed to phase out limitations on their steel imports by March 31 , 1992 , in order to open up the EC to Third-World steel imports which flooded the US market .
9 Cheshire Railtours are planning a rail tour up the WCML to Carlisle and return via the S & C on Saturday 17th April 1993 , cost £20 .
10 Thirty years ago this week a gang of audacious , daring robbers held up the London to Glasgow mail train and made off with over two and a half million pounds .
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