Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | After chatting to Davidson for a few minutes longer , he went back to his office . |
2 | He jerked his poncho up , felt about in the pocket of his filthy jeans and produced a screwed-up bit of paper which he handed to Ward with a few muttered words . |
3 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
4 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
5 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
6 | In January 1936 Edward went to Windsor for a few weeks . |
7 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
8 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
9 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
10 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
11 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
12 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
13 | We were in Stratford for the summer , but I went down to Hampshire for a few weeks to do some business for Will about some sheep . |
14 | However , I understand that , the other day , an English acrobat 's son came up to Scotland for a few hours and said that the whole thing was non-negotiable . |
15 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
16 | And we before that we made quite a few runs to Kirkwall with a that was a small one that we had and erm you had to get the bus from Evie of course to Kirkwall and back the same way . |
17 | Still you could always come back to Malia for a little peace and quiet in the local monastery ! |
18 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
19 | But roots will out and this month she makes a triumphal re-entry to SoHo in a former high-ceilinged , window-fronted exercise studio directly across from the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street . |
20 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
21 | As the monk studied God 's Word he would frequently find his heart lifting itself up to God for a few brief but intense moments . |
22 | The Starsearch returns to Derry in a few weeks , and those who missed out on this occasion are strongly urged to re-enter . |
23 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
24 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
25 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
26 | She 'd get to California in a few days . |
27 | But if you wanted to go to any of those , those I marked for my days off , apart from the one to Blagden on a half day . |
28 | We 'll be going to London for a few days next month to find suitable premises , so I 'll be able to go down and see Mum and Dad and the children . |
29 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |
30 | ‘ Some of the people who have been having a go at Steve are n't fit to tie his shoelaces , ’ retorts Foster , who has been imparting a few words of wisdom to Cram as a former miler-turned-European 5,000m champion himself . |