Example sentences of "and [adv] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything seemed to be going well and Yurchenko was about to provide more useful information when , on 2 November 1985 , he eluded his CIA colleagues at a restaurant in Washington and made his way back to the Russian Embassy and thence to Moscow . |
| 2 | Again in the top right-hand section of the map the dominant whiteness ceased abruptly in a line extending down from Danzig hsien to Poznan , and thence to Krakow and across to Lvov , ending on the shores of the Black Sea , at Odessa . |
| 3 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |
| 4 | Their demands were to have a radical effect on British livestock on a national basis and a massive trade developed in which cattle were reared in the more remote northern and western regions , sent in droves to fatten on grass and turnips in the Midlands , Norfolk , Essex , Hertfordshire , Middlesex and Surrey , and thence to London 's slaughterhouses in due course . |
| 5 | In seven months , he could get the Hopewell back to Virginia , and thence to London , with a request for more men and supplies to plant this colony . |
| 6 | If they went sailing , there would be no chance to speak privately to Mary ; in two days the Shelley party was leaving here , making for Geneva and thence to London . |
| 7 | Drinking the thin , bitter coffee , she reverted to the ideas of the night , to returning home , and before she had finished it was resolved on packing her things and making her way to Holborn station and thence to Liverpool Street . |
| 8 | Eric Schumacher , newly appointed as TRANSAID director , has visited Lesotho and Mozambique and thence to South Africa to meet representatives of the Road Transport Federation , with whom S.C.F. are now dealing to locate possible resources to assist in the present emergency . |
| 9 | Some of the stories were pretty fanciful and involved helicopters and mercenaries but at least one claimed that Blake would be helped to escape by another prisoner and once free would go to East Germany and thence to Russia . |
| 10 | An estimated 600 Libyans prisoners of war opposed to Kadhafi , who had received US military training , had been airlifted out of Chad with US assistance , first to Nigeria and thence to Zaïre . |
| 11 | In 1885 Frederick Cranko ( who , after starting as a sailor , worked as a tailor , an engraver and a clerk ) joined the gold rush to Pretoria and thence to Johannesburg , a thousand miles from Cape Town . |
| 12 | Seeds arrived at Chelsea from a diversity of sources : for example , species of Aster : A. grandiflorus , found by Catesby in Virginia , A. nervosus from Pennsylvania ; A. chinensis ( now Callistephus chinensis , the China Aster ) sent to France by missionaries and thence to Chelsea and of this species , a double white from ‘ my worthy friend , Dr. Job Baxter of Zirkzee , Holland ’ ; and finally A. amantus and A. procumbens from William Houstoun in Vera Cruz . |
| 13 | In 1943 he managed to leave Holland and travelled across France to Spain and thence to England . |
| 14 | Monday will see everyone take their seats for the return journey via Amiens and thence to Calais and a very special lunch on board before the voyage home to England . |
| 15 | This elegant steam train will sweep you from Cherbourg to Bayeux to view the beautiful 11th century tapestry and thence to Paris with lunch on board . |
| 16 | It was isolated , yet close to Rouen and thence to Paris . |
| 17 | Every August the Queen travelled from her house at Osborne on the Isle of Wight to Gosport and thence to Balmoral by train . |
| 18 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 19 | William 's second and eponymous son was educated at the School before transferring to Westminster and thence to Cambridge and a career in politics as leader of the Jacobite squires in the House of Commons ; his younger brother , Robert , went directly from School to Merton College , Oxford , and there pursued an academic career , becoming Vice Chancellor of that University . |
| 20 | And thence to Halifax where they had entered the town in their thousands , led by the women , Sairellen had been pleased to hear , walking four and five abreast , empty-handed and bare-headed as she had herself once walked to York , singing the psalm she too had sung on that day . |
| 21 | After completing extensive surveys Stutchbury returned to Sydney in 1855 , his health much undermined , and thence to Bristol . |
| 22 | She intended to pick up her cases and proceed with what she was here to do , go up and out into the street and thence to Streatham Street to find the hotel . |
| 23 | Mass protests ( and a refugee exodus to India and thence to Nepal ) began in August-September 1990 [ see p. 37711 ] when , in tandem with strict enforcement of the Bhutanese language , dress and Buddhist cultural code , thousands of ethnic Nepalese were made stateless by enforcement of the 1985 citizenship act , requiring them to show evidence of pre-1958 domicile in Bhutan . |
| 24 | Onward to Chartres with its magnificent Cathedral and thence to Nevers and St Bernadette . |
| 25 | In 1957 he was appointed relief manager for their branches throughout London and three years later he became their Holloway branch manager , moving to Ilford as the manager in 1963 and on to Southend-on-Sea as depot manager in 1973 . |
| 26 | Here it crosses the Trent and into the Erewash Canal and on to Langley Mill . |
| 27 | If you draw a line from Loughborough down the A six , through the city of Leicester and on to Market Harborough to the east of that line , in that part of the county where most of the hunting takes place , there is one small piece of land , less than one acre , somewhere near Thorpe Satchfield which we actually control . |
| 28 | With the first issue she hitched north to York and on to Hull , where the students were occupying the campus in solidarity with the May Events at first , but rapidly in pursuit of ‘ One Man — One Vote ’ within the university . |
| 29 | From the car park at Alfred 's Tower — on the National Trust 's Stourhead Estate — the route goes around three miles across country to Redlynch and on to Burton . |
| 30 | Soon you come to Cressbrook Mill , which dates from 1182 , before crossing the Monsal viaduct and on to Bakewell Station and the Coombs Road viaduct . |