Example sentences of "was visit [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Genscher was received by President Lech Walesa ( who was to visit Germany in the coming months ) , by Foreign Minister Krzysztof Skubiszewski , and by representatives of the Sejm and the Senate for talks on Polish-German relations , inter-parliamentary contacts , and Poland 's treatment of its German minority . |
| 2 | Another delight of our early days was to visit Pevensey . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi visited Italy on Oct. 2 , meeting Foreign Affairs Minister Emilio Colombo and President Oscar Scalfaro who was to visit Albania on Oct. 26 . |
| 4 | On Aug. 28 it was reported that Patten was to visit China on Oct. 12-14 , when it was expected that he would have talks with Premier Li Peng and other officials . |
| 5 | His enthusiasm was to visit Ireland and he had read whatever he could get hold of by Irish writers , but especially by Flann O'Brien . |
| 6 | The excuse for this trip was to visit Val 's brother and his family , who have recently moved from Regina in the middle of the prairies , to these more temperate and scenically more exciting shores . |
| 7 | In fact , some two months ago , I was most happy to learn that Sir James was to visit Darlington Hall . |
| 8 | He had already invited his new young friend to travel to Stowey a few weeks later , and when they parted after six miles , Hazlitt was possessed by a single thought : ‘ I was to visit Coleridge in the spring . ’ |
| 9 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 10 | The only thing he could n't persuade Edith to do was to visit Boulogne for the day . |
| 11 | That companion of his undergraduate years , who obviously hoped that one day she would replace Vivien , was visiting England during the school vacation . |
| 12 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 13 | Whether she was visiting Paris , writing articles , dealing with layout , even demonstrating how to cut out a pattern for a perplexed reader , Isabella 's energy and organizational skills were crucial to the management of the publishing house . |
| 14 | On the day of the arrest Spanish Interior Minister José Luis Corcuera , who was visiting Paris , had been informed of the operation . |
| 15 | Queen Elizabeth of England was visiting Amsterdam for the William and Mary celebrations — three-hundred years of English-Dutch friendship — so us Dutch queens planned our own reception for her . |
| 16 | My partners were Doug Scott , squeezing climbing into a packed lecture programme , and David Harris , the author of Vortex , who was visiting Britain for the Boardman-Tasker Award ceremonies . |
| 17 | Bob Hawke , Prime Minister and leader of the ALP at national level , was visiting Perth , the capital of Western Australia , at the time and assented to the change . |
| 18 | Carter , who was visiting China in a private capacity , also raised the subject of human rights during talks with Li Peng and Jiang Zemin . |
| 19 | At the time of writing , Alex was visiting America on a hectic tour . |
| 20 | In September 1973 , while I was visiting Moscow , I discussed black holes with two leading Soviet experts , Yakov Zeldovich and Alexander Starobinsky . |
| 21 | ‘ Distance Looks Our Way ’ was first thought of in 1988 , when Wellington artist Tony Lane was visiting Spain . |
| 22 | Just last summer he was visiting Fort Perbrook , in Portsmouth , built in Napoleonic times , where an excellent youth-training scheme was being run and he was to address a seminar . |
| 23 | Hrawi , who was visiting Damascus , the Syrian capital , at the time of the assassination , described it as " an act of aggression against the state security " . |
| 24 | The Israeli Prime Minister , Itzhak Shamir , who was visiting Washington at the time the invitations were sent out , reacted angrily , stating that a Dec. 4 starting date did not allow enough time for Israel to prepare . |
| 25 | No — I was visiting Mrs Gammon who owns the house . |
| 26 | Ms Anderson , who has spent many years living and working in London and Washington , was visiting Torquay for the BA Conference . |
| 27 | By the 1120s and 1130s Abbot Peter the Venerable was visiting Rome on several occasions , and undertaking , in the year 1130 , journeys to England and Provence , where he met the pope at Saint-Gilles ; and in 1135 to Pisa as well as about France . |
| 28 | One morning we woke up in Tangier , where I was visiting Paul Bowles — a famous homosexual writer — and she was suffocating . |
| 29 | I was visiting Lisabeth , you see , while my parents were out . ’ |
| 30 | While I was visiting Joan Greenway of Highfield Nurseries , the fruit specialists , she described to me her recipe for trouble-free apple growing : disease-resistant varieties , the right rootstock for your preferred size of tree , a simple summer and winter prune plus a crab apple to take care of your pollination needs . |