Example sentences of "[verb] to britain [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibraltar and Minorca remained in British hands throughout the war , and were formally transferred to Britain by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 2 | In 1976 , a Danish film-maker called Jens Jorgen Thorsen came to Britain with the intention of making a film , provisionally entitled The Many Faces of Jesus . |
| 3 | West Indians , for example , came to Britain with the intention of settling here , Pakistanis with the conviction that they would eventually return . |
| 4 | Before 1869 , there was no Institution in England and Wales ( nor for that matter , in Scotland ) where deaf children of Roman Catholics could be educated in their own faith , and when a Belgian priest , Monsignore de Haerne , a deputy in the Belgian Senate , learnt of this , he came to Britain for the purpose of establishing one . |
| 5 | Official statistics put the number of women who travel to Britain from the province for abortions each year at around 2,000 , although the actual figure is believed to be higher . |
| 6 | Tony returned to Britain with the idea that the M.I. concept could work equally well over here , albeit on a smaller scale . |
| 7 | Le Pen sparked protests when he recently flew to Britain at the invitation of the right-wing Western Goals group . |
| 8 | Beaker pottery is very widespread in Europe and there is little doubt that the style was initially introduced to Britain from the Continent . |
| 9 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |
| 10 | Too many bright sparks have been lost to Britain in the past . |
| 11 | 26-year-old George John Stacey , who 's of no fixed address , returned to Britain at the weekend after waiving his right to appeal against extradition . |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't have liked to be returned to Britain at the end of the war labelled ‘ traitor ’ , ' he said . |
| 13 | It could be months before wife killer James Rudman is returned to Britain from the Republic . |