Example sentences of "to [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 10 May , on Soviet invitation , Gen Keightley went to Voitsberg to confer with the Commander of the Soviet 6 Guards Corps . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to Alès to work in the municipal library , ’ she replied . |
| 3 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 4 | Young Gilbey 's passion was cars and he skipped going to university to move to the bright lights of London . |
| 5 | In sharp contrast to his ‘ enthusiasm ’ of 1792 , in 1806 Fox introduced the abolition resolution by reminding the Commons what was owed to its own reputation after its 1792 decision for gradual abolition was not carried through ; he appealed to the memory of Pitt and the arguments of Burke ; he looked to parliament to speak for the nation on ‘ a question in which party feelings , arising out of political connections , can have no share ’ . |
| 6 | A week later , the trial was told , MacIver had hired a car and followed the lorry to Inverness to prepare for the robbery . |
| 7 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 8 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 9 | We sent er our er receptionist to Lincoln to listen to the tape recording . |
| 10 | Energy cut-out is the second level of safety and is set to operate at 85°C to 90°C to turn off the boiler or other source of heat |
| 11 | In all his self-justifications , Joyce talked of having come to Germany to fight for the new order against Bolshevism and Jewry . |
| 12 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 13 | He called to Eleanor to come into the kitchen . |
| 14 | The Montenegrin poet and the Serbian philologist made friends immediately , and in 1834 Vuk was invited to Cetinje to assist in the establishment of a new printing press , using Vuk 's phonetic orthographic principle . |
| 15 | My youngest son , Joseph , is very interested in history , and we are going to Hue to look at the Imperial City and watch the emperor perform the traditional ceremonies of Tet . " |
| 16 | They offered very favourable rates to industry to move into the area , and the whole venture enjoyed massive success . |
| 17 | About 30 people , including two fellow-Hildas — Hilda Lodge and Hilda Hewitt — came to Weston to join in the birthday celebrations . |
| 18 | In the later months of 1989 several exiled opposition activists returned to Taiwan to participate in the campaign for the December elections . |
| 19 | People used to go to Bedlam to laugh at the lunatics . |
| 20 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 21 | Very simply it presents , through its visual image of the Crucifixion and its present-tense appeal to passers-by to think of the uniqueness of the love it manifests , a sense of the issues of the Passion as a continual process : The final two lines complete the physical image but metaphorically signify that reality at the heart of Christianity , that through the experience of suffering the strength of love is made known . |
| 22 | Then he fled to Mexico to live with the family of his parents ' Mexican maid . |
| 23 | It took him considerably less than that , for within weeks of the couple parting , Mr Parkes , 27 , took advantage of Miss Dyson 's trip to Spain to return to the home in Northwich they had once shared . |
| 24 | She was a guest teacher at the prestigious Medau Teachers ' Whitsum Course in Coburg in 1983 and the trainers who experienced her work there have managed to persuade her to come to England to work with the English teachers . |
| 25 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 26 | Christie 's has even gone to Washington to lobby for the bill . |
| 27 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 28 | We went to Washington to talk to the IRS and said , ‘ Look , honest donors want a reputable place to get appraisals and we think dealers are best qualified to provide it ’ . |
| 29 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 30 | When he found himself in charge of a famous school he seized his opportunity and set to work to instil in the offspring of the ruling classes the personally desirable and politically vital sense of sin . |