Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His acrid and accusing farewell to London was Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ) . |
| 2 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 3 | From the Stac Polly car park , the road continues eastwards through scenes of mountain grandeur , skirting the lower slopes of Cul Beag and reaching the main road , now the A.835 , coming from Kylesku or Lairg and heading south to Ullapool , with retrospective views of Stac Polly until declining into Strath Kanaird and arriving on the coast at Ardmair Bay . |
| 4 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 5 | The main prosecution witness , former Bank of Crete chairman George Koskotas , was in prison in the United States and fighting extradition to Greece where he himself would face charges . |
| 6 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |