Example sentences of "and [prep] [noun] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 2 | Throughout the year we have all had to pay huge amounts for advertising and for fees to PR firms and City advisers . |
| 3 | Construction work on the reactor , intended to generate electricity both for domestic use and for sale to Belgium and the Netherlands , had commenced in 1972 , and it had been due to start operating in 1979 . |
| 4 | Construction work on the reactor , which had been intended to generate electricity both for domestic use and for sale to Belgium and the Netherlands , had commenced in 1972 , and it had been due to start operating in 1979 . |
| 5 | Three outdoor enthusiasts have walked and cycled across the Pennines and through Europe to Istanbul in an effort to promote the proposed Trans-Pennine Way and send greetings of goodwill from 30 local authorities to European mayors . |
| 6 | It can climb to 25ft-30ft , and through summer to October it has rather insignificant pale cream flowers with excellent fragrance . |
| 7 | When the station arrangements at Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia were reorganized in 1960 , a special African station was built near the African locations , ostensibly for the convenience of African travellers but , one suspects , rather for the comfort of the Whites , who secured more exclusive use of the main Bulawayo station with its important connections to Salisbury , the Victoria Falls , and through Bechuanaland to Kimberley and the Cape . |
| 8 | Writing in 1959 and with reference to Peter Townsend 's calculation that a fifth of the population had not shared in the general improvement in living standards since the war , Roy Jenkins argued : |
| 9 | ‘ That was you , ’ said James accusingly and with satisfaction to Alice . |
| 10 | Around the next corner he came to a hairpin bend where the road turned abruptly inland and up hill to Albert Terrace . |
| 11 | The volumes of the still popular Pelican Guide to English Literature which refer to the Renaissance are called The Age of Shakespeare and From Donne to Marvell , for example . |
| 12 | This year we examined Business English candidates from Hungary to Russia and from Slovenia to Poland . |
| 13 | And , while there are Link/Plus ATMs from Guam to Canada and from Japan to America , there are none in Italy or France . |
| 14 | Winter Motorail services operate from London to Aberdeen , Inverness and Penzance overnight and from London to Carlisle in the daytime . |
| 15 | [ Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers , vol. cxxiv , 1895–6 ; C. Hamilton Ellis , ‘ Famous Locomotive Engineers ’ , Locomotive , Railway Carriage and Wagon Review , 15 October 1938 ; E. L. Ahrons , The British Steam Railway Locomotive 1825–1925 , 1927 ; F. A. S. Brown , Great Northern Locomotive Engineers 1846–1881 , 1966 , and From Stirling to Gresley 1882–1922 , 1974 . ] |
| 16 | But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them . |
| 17 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 18 | We fly from here to Nanking on April 17th , and from Nanking to Shanghai , we go by train on May 8th . |
| 19 | Over 2 million animals live on the limitless plains of the Serengeti and from December to May , they are massed like an army on the shortgrass plains in the south of the park . |
| 20 | The wide beach of fine sand offers beach huts , umbrellas and boats for hire and from mid-June to mid-Sept , there is a club house , snack-bar and piano bar , and buffet served in the beach garden for a local charge . |
| 21 | The basic network was supplemented by the opening of 2 further lines by the Llanelly Railway from Llandeilo to Carmarthen in 1864 to 1865 ; and from Pontarddulais to Swansea Victoria in 1866 to 1867 . |
| 22 | From Vietnam to Colombia and from Scotland to New Zealand all BP 's businesses are involved in local communities and education , in a manner that suits local needs and circumstances . |
| 23 | ‘ I left on Monday morning from Amsterdam , where I met my brother and his girlfriend , and we continued to Miami , and from Miami to St Maarten , from St Maarten to Anguilla where we arrived in the middle of the night . |
| 24 | During our presidency we must extend the competence of the Community so that it can ensure that once animal welfare regulations are passed they are enforced — from Spain to Scotland and from Ireland to Greece . |
| 25 | There is no reason , however , why the restriction should apply only to the elements that A holds in common with C and not those that it holds in common with B. That is , the overshadowing mechanism , if it operates , should reduce generalization both from A to C and from A to B. It can not , therefore , be responsible for the result obtained . |
| 26 | The new company 's tied estate is centred on the West Midlands , but stretches from Sheffield to Worcester , and from Leicester to Telford . |
| 27 | In 1874 the Loco Establishment was removed from Wolverton to Northampton , on completion of the loop line from Rugby to Northampton ( opened 1 December 1881 ) and from Northampton to Roade ( opened 3 April 1882 ) . |
| 28 | When it turned up , it was both horrible and useful ; a mind-boggling twist to the Iran story ( Pelion piled on Ossa , indeed ) , but also a magnificent diversion from the Iranian debacle to the Nicaraguan controversy , from approved Policy to possibly freelance meanderings , and from Reagan to North . |
| 29 | It is generally assumed that pus-cells in the urethra are synonymous with infection and the pus-cell is treated vigorously from Bath to Bangkok and from Memphis to Madras as if it were an infectious organism itself . |
| 30 | And from Armagh to Craigavon ? |