Example sentences of "to [noun prp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1981 , I went to Moscow for a conference on quantum gravity . |
| 2 | Avery sat to Minton for a couple of portraits and for a period saw him about once a fortnight . |
| 3 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
| 4 | Imagine going all the way to Inverness for a pint of milk … |
| 5 | Late abed in a sumptuous local B&B , then Martin is off at 6am , to drive to Inverness for a flight to Heathrow . |
| 6 | I did n't go to Lourdes for a miracle but Lourdes makes me appreciate each day and thank God for Zoe . |
| 7 | She announced , to my dismay , that she was coming to Salamanca for a week or so . |
| 8 | ‘ Which is perhaps why you can come to Czechoslovakia for a holiday alone , a working holiday , ’ he qualified with some charm . |
| 9 | Steve succeeded John Sewell as Palace 's captain , but in September 1971 he moved over to Chelsea for a fee quoted as £170,000 , as Bert Head sought funds to reshape his squad for 1st Division survival . |
| 10 | He was to go to Brighton for a fortnight in another play , in 1950 , A Phoenix Too Frequent by Christopher Fry , whose well-wrought and ‘ difficult ’ verse dramas had so unexpectedly caught the taste of the public . |
| 11 | I remember in June going to Brighton for a meeting of the National Association of Health Authorities . |
| 12 | As well as establishing a nominated Senate and a Legislature elected by universal male suffrage , it gave the presidency to Louis-Napoleon for a period of ten years . |
| 13 | ‘ Britain 's influence is much weaker and countries are looking to Germany for a lead , ’ he said . |
| 14 | But we now realize the extent to which these scientists looked to France and later to Germany for a lead . |
| 15 | ‘ Sunday Evening : Off to Windsor for a benefit for Thames Valley Hospice . |
| 16 | Ironically , at the same time as Babes was killing himself in protest against Ceauşescu 's tyranny , the BBC ran a holiday programme detailing the pleasures of skiing around Braşov and suggesting that viewers go to Romania for a glimpse of glasnost . |
| 17 | I 'd like to take the people who did this to Romania for a month and show them how vital these supplies were . ’ |
| 18 | Upwards on 20,000 supporters are expected to flock to Limerick for a match that has evoked country-wide interest . |
| 19 | They had first met fifteen years earlier when a small cadre of SAS men , led by D'Arcy , had visited the Mont Louis Commando Training School close to Andorra for an exchange visit . |
| 20 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 21 | At dawn on Friday morning a CPR freight train , travelling at high speed , had crashed into an old Model-T Ford killing , in a rather mangled mess , the entire staff of five from a Chinese restaurant who were en route to Regina for a visit with relatives . |
| 22 | The Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd , has gone to Brussels for a lone-fight against other European Countries to keep passport checks in a border-free Europe . |
| 23 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |
| 24 | And so back to that visit to Wasdale for a couple of classic Pillar Severes sandwiched within an invigorating traverse of the High Level Route . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Wallaby skipper Michael Lynagh will set out on a remarkable 24,000 mile round trip that will take him to Brisbane for an operation and back to Wales for the final fortnight of the Australian tour . |
| 26 | Australian skipper Michael Lynagh will undergo a 24,000 mile round trip to Brisbane for an operation on his dislocated shoulder and return for the final fortnight of the Welsh tour . |
| 27 | Late in May Andy Norman had taken a small party of athletes to Oslo for a meeting . |
| 28 | IAN McKIM , former schools and youth international back row forward , has rejoined NEWPORT from CARDIFF — and gets a trip to Tenerife for a week 's warm weather training with the Black-and-Ambers . |
| 29 | And we when how old were they when we went to Whitley for a holiday ? |
| 30 | Eight weeks ago Gooch took his family to Portugal for a week . |