Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It went down to Jim in the path lab . |
| 2 | In her first run in the Sheikh 's colours she came second to Katies in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot and in October was a strong-finishing second , beaten a neck , to Palace Music in the Champion Stakes . |
| 3 | Heide Schmidt , 43 , who was deputy to Haider in the FPÖ but on the party 's liberal wing and was described as a skilled politician respected outside the FPÖ , was nominated by the FPÖ on Nov. 21 . |
| 4 | Another West Indian , Ezra Moseley , was second to Pringle in the bowling averages . |
| 5 | The intention at that time had been for Ian and myself to return to Uist by the ferry in the afternoon but the weather was so bad that the ferryman decided not to chance his luck in the storm . |
| 6 | It might not be too late to get a direct order through to Kirov on the radio . |
| 7 | He also purchased seven drawings attributed to Michelangelo from the Woodburn sale at Christie 's in 1887 and gave them to the British Museum ( five are still accepted as autograph ) . |
| 8 | The cup triumph will go a long way to easing the memory of their loss to Waringstown in the final of the Touche Ross Senior Cup last month and caps a solid season for the Comber side . |
| 9 | , and I flew to Agra in the evening , and were met by the British Council driver . |
| 10 | We cycled down through Vigo to the port , where we jostled with the locals to get the bikes aboard a ferry across the Ria de Vigo to Cangas on the Peninsula de Morazo , before cycling to the little sleepy fishing village of Bueu , which was quiet and unspoilt . |
| 11 | He had moved to Stockholm after the collapse of the Soviet Union in November 1991 . |
| 12 | There were many meetings and much paperwork to ensure the availability of petrol , oil , tools and crew to take over to Newfoundland for the attempt . |
| 13 | And I was still in time for my 13.15 departure to Sunderland across the footbridge . |
| 14 | The main blot is the increasing number of caravan sites which spoil the views from Lyme Regis in the west to Abbotsbury in the east . |
| 15 | Jack took Amy and Adam to Hull for the funeral where Amy sobbed her heart out and Adam , less than three months after his Barmitzvah , threw a clod of earth on to his grandad 's coffin as his first act of manhood . |
| 16 | Fox turned down a move to Hull at the weekend but Northern had to match the Humbersiders ' £140,000 offer before clinching the deal . |
| 17 | When we left Aline at Stanley and went on up to Marcus on the floor above I asked Gwenellen how she got along with Humber . |
| 18 | Other metalepses include letters written to Mira by the characters she invents , and arguments with terrorists of her own creation . |
| 19 | WG received a total of £4.6m in the settlement ; £0.9m amounted to loans to WG by the Carrs which have been written off . |
| 20 | Miss Azovtseva also denied that the escaped whales — one of which is still in the Mediterranean — had been taken to Sevastopol from the Pacific coast for military research . |
| 21 | From Moana we went down to Hokitika on the Coast , a town which now makes its living largely from the sale of bone and greenstone carving , of high quality and quite reasonable prices . |
| 22 | The search goes back to Moscow for the truth about Wallenberg : This Sunday leaders of Sweden 's Raoul Wallenberg Society arrive in Moscow for meetings with Soviet officials . |
| 23 | In 1968 she delivered the PCE 's protest to Moscow at the invasion of Czechoslovakia and supported Santiago Carrillo , her successor as secretary-general , in his espousal of Eurocommunism against Soviet criticisms , despite her own reservations . |
| 24 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 25 | Subsequently , however , under pressure from more radical mujaheddin groups , Mujjaddedi withdrew his support for Soviet-mujaheddin talks , and on Oct. 28 the Bakhtar Information Agency in Kabul announced that Borhanuddin Rabani , rather than Mujadedi , was to head a delegation of Afghan opposition groups to Moscow at the end of October or beginning of November . |
| 26 | Those which went to Moscow from the west were fed by the Russian government ; and the ceremonial presentation each day of food to the foreigners was considered of such symbolic importance that it was kept up even during the terrible famine of 1601 – 03 , the worst in all Russian history . |
| 27 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
| 28 | In 1935 they were summoned to Moscow by the Comintern and in April 1937 Neumann was arrested by the NKVD and disappeared for ever . |
| 29 | It is not clear whether he was recruited as a Soviet agent at Cambridge or during his trip to Moscow in the summer of 1934 . |
| 30 | Regarding Afghanistan ( on which there had been speculation that an agreement on a ceasefire was imminent , in view of recent political developments in the country and an unexpected visit by President Najibullah to Moscow in the week preceding the Irkutsk talks ) , both sides agreed on the need for elections , but remained at odds over the transition process . |