Example sentences of "to [noun prp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'll drive you there — you got ta be there , they want you — ; we 'll take you to Hull in a chauffeured car . |
| 2 | Though watched by Louis , Gomez held out his hand to Trent in an unspoken plea for absolution . |
| 3 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
| 4 | The Leeds boss still shudders at the memory of his old Sheffield Wednesday side going 4-3 down to Chelsea in a League Cup tie seven years ago after cruising at 3-0 up . |
| 5 | Under the Panama canal treaties , the United States is to hand over all military facilities to Panama in a gradual ‘ draw-down ’ before the end of 1999 . |
| 6 | It was a three-hour ride to Amantani in a small , partially covered boat across Lake Titicaca : one hundred and thirty miles long by forty-one miles wide ; at 3,812 metres the highest navigable water in the world . |
| 7 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 8 | He flew to Holyhead in a helicopter from the Queen 's flight and then on to Anglesey for a series of visits which had been arranged months in advance . |
| 9 | Right D two how long does it take to go from Ventnor to Swanage in a launch with a speed of eight miles per hour ? |
| 10 | Oh we 're , we 're going to Sainsburys in a minute . |
| 11 | Alexandra came down the steps in her new green clothes , under which she had managed to put her old comfortable corset when Lyddy had left the room to polish her boots , wearing a smile that was partly triumph at her illicit comfort and partly the satisfaction of having taken five hens ' and four pullets ' eggs to Dora in a little rush basket that very morning . |
| 12 | On Nov. 6 Marrack Goulding , the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace-Keeping Operations , was despatched to Angola in an effort to resolve the crisis and restore peace . |
| 13 | Any devout Jew would recognise this ‘ star from Jacob ’ as referring to David in a Messianic sense . |
| 14 | Kenny won nine full England International caps while he was a Palace player , with another eight for the Under 21 's and two for England B. He was our Player of the Year in both 1977 and 1979 , an ( l it took a record fee to take him to Arsenal in an exchange deal in 1980 , when he and Clive Allen were each valued at £1 million . |
| 15 | Once I was talking alone to Lucy in a corner , laughing together and , as I impulsively took one of her hands in both of mine , I heard a sharp cry of ‘ Lucy ! |
| 16 | Then a short time ago she came to Edward in a great state . ’ |
| 17 | Peasants came to her to be reminded of a particular tale the details of which they had mislaid in the mists of childhood ; more sophisticated members of the community , less concerned with the tale than the teller , made the journey to Elling in an effort to keep alive a tradition that had died elsewhere . |
| 18 | A pilot is hoping to secure a place in the record books by flying from Britain to Portugal in a microlight aircraft . |
| 19 | On Jan. 3 , 34 people sought asylum in the USA after flying to Miami in a Air Cubana helicopter usually used for flying tourists to Varadero . |
| 20 | Horowitz drove back to Freiburg in a philosophical mood — the registration number of Tweed 's Mercedes had not been on the list . |
| 21 | He now travelled to Spain in a small English ship which was chased by pirates . |
| 22 | Its 24-hour-a-day , satellite-directed tentacles now wrap themselves around the entire Spanish-speaking world from the USA to the southern tip of Argentina and across the Atlantic to Spain in an effort to duplicate the success of the North American Cable News Network in the English-speaking world . |
| 23 | ‘ I could tell you tales about that one which would make your hair curl , ’ Natasha whispered to Maggie in a conspiratorial tone , and winked . |
| 24 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 25 | Any assistance to Russia in a struggle with Japan in East Asia would involve these powers in war with Britain , so the alliance effectively restricted any such conflict to Russia and Japan alone . |
| 26 | what I 'm saying is , you know , you ca n't go from Stirling to Aberdeen in a couple of minutes . |
| 27 | The course runs parallel to Karon Beach in the region of Chalon Bay before returning to Phuket in a loose figure of eight . |
| 28 | Then , one night , he took off from Toussus to return to Tarbes in a Turbo Trinidad , went up to FL 210 , and passed out while on autopilot . |
| 29 | In 1942 Cecil Beaton returned to England in a flying-boat from a three month tour of Egypt , Iraq and Persia as an official war photographer . |
| 30 | After several more months as a prisoner of war , he escaped again and this time succeeded in making his way to England in a small boat . |