Example sentences of "on a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A decade later , Johnson , on a journey to Oxford , sat in the stage-coach beside a Mrs Beresford and her daughter ; the girl was passing the time in knotting , a kind of tatting , in which coloured threads are knitted into decorative knots . |
| 2 | Another point which has n't been taken up , despite us being invited to is why is the Greater York area the size that it is , and this is a point that the Senior Inspector raised , er in other towns and cities , I 'm thinking particularly of Exeter for example , the districts have looked at supplying their city based land supply problems on a journey to work area , now that area would be significantly greater than we 're looking at here , and it seems to me in this location er where we see a potential abundance of supply beyond the strict confines of the Greater York area is a very apposite question to ask , why is the Greater York area the area that it is ? |
| 3 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 4 | On the one hand I needed to stress the bus driver 's evidence in order to bolster my case , which was that Carella had somehow stumbled on a clue to Moro 's whereabouts . |
| 5 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 6 | And when I confessed the other day in the King 's Head that we were off on a trip to Dartington , there were cynical smiles . |
| 7 | Her father was a high official and had taken her with him on a trip to London and she had returned with her hair in orange stripes . |
| 8 | If you simply want some inspiration for your dinner parties , why not include a half-day cookery demonstration on a trip to London ? |
| 9 | This plan was dogged by misfortune and the loss of the plates on a trip to London was never rectified . |
| 10 | Parents from the school joined hundreds from all over Gloucestershire on a trip to London to lobby Parliament . |
| 11 | The Ethics Committee on Feb. 2 , 1990 , released a report critical of Gus Savage ( Dem. , Illinois ) , for sexually harassing a Peace Corps worker while on a trip to Zaïre , but declined to recommend any disciplinary action , following Savage 's letter of apology to the woman concerned [ for previous developments in Savage and Bates cases see p. 36843 ] . |
| 12 | WOOD Group Fire Protection managing director Gerald Hocking was caught taking the weight off his feet on a trip to Cincinnati . |
| 13 | These included taking 25 of the Courtelle manufacturer 's major domestic customers on a trip to Holland and then to the Expofil exhibition in Paris . |
| 14 | But claims that he sexually harassed her on a trip to Cannes were rejected . |
| 15 | DID you hear the one about 16 English men , eight Scots , four Welsh and two Irishmen going on a trip to New Zealand … ? |
| 16 | Some five years ago when I first encountered the system on a trip to America I recall being both impressed and disappointed . |
| 17 | The attack happened as the widows , from Sunderland , were on a trip to South Shields . |
| 18 | We have been on a trip to Cliff College in Derbyshire . |
| 19 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 20 | On a trip to Aire-sur-La Lys , just 36 miles from Calais but deep in the heart of provincial France , we stayed at The Three Mousquetaires , a converted chateau . |
| 21 | Darius Guppy , the best friend of Princess Diana 's brother , told his partner Ishan Dutta that Peter Hall would act as a minder on a trip to India . |
| 22 | Examples include the installation of new plant , moving an unusual load or shipping fridges to Iceland , the chief executive leaving on a trip to China , long service presentations and involvement in local community activities . |
| 23 | This year , we sent 79 children to Germany , 42 children to France on two-week exchanges , 70 children on a weekend trip to France , the fifth-years went on a trip to Paris . |
| 24 | Being grafted onto a teenaged farrier 's somewhat wayward lifestyle was doing Henry no good , and he was destined to be ‘ lost ’ in the bush on a trip to Tamworth ( further north ) until Robert stepped in and adopted him . |
| 25 | On a trip to Idaho , the spud falls in love with the state 's most alluring potato and , by writing clever mash notes , wins her heart . |
| 26 | Wheelchair travellers used to cross the track on boards laid down for mail trolleys.But now the disabled are being forced to make an eighty mile detour via Shrewsbury to get to Hereford because British Rail have taken up the boards for safety reasons.We joined the Leominster Disabled Access group on a trip to Hereford . |
| 27 | At 13 , he watched Macmillan deliver his Budget speech in 1953 on a trip to Westminster , courtesy of his local Labour MP , Marcus Lipton . |
| 28 | Jim Dine , on a trip to Norway , describes Munch 's The Scream as ‘ more of a caricature of Angst than the real thing ’ , while Sean Scully waxes lyrical about how the colours in his Manhattan bathroom remind him of Matisse . |
| 29 | The buses were offered to a leading charity to take deprived children on a trip to Woburn Safari Park . |
| 30 | Maybe tomorrow she 'd take Mae West on a trip to Avignon . |