Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [noun prp] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 The surprise defeat of Puma Sunderland away to Top Spin Darlington meant that with two games in hand Ilkley need to win only one of their last two matches to be the North-East representatives in the area play-offs .
2 A plan is underway to build a new YMCA home on Melland Street close to where the landscaping work is to be done .
3 Grove House could be approached by a lane called King 's Lane from Sutton Lane close to Sutton Manor Court .
4 And then coming down from a point on King Street just to the left of the existing tree , if you can imagine that , and coming back across the marketplace
5 The point on mainland Asia closest to Japan is the southern tip of the Korean peninsula over 200 kilometres from northern Kyushu .
6 The society wants development proposals , such as the building of 10,000 new houses in west Swindon close to drought-stricken rivers , to be refused if there is too little water available .
7 Nicky was born on the small island of Puerto Rico close to the United States of America .
8 It happened behind the ice rink in Oxford off Oxpens Road close to the Oxford Canal .
9 Dame Edna pursed her lips , the Coalport cup of Earl Grey halfway to her vermilioned slash of a mouth , and leaned forward , confidingly , offering a tantalising glimpse of heaving bosom appropriately cantilevered for the occasion .
10 Cyril Brooks , of the York Pastoral Centre , cycled from York to John O'Groats then to Lands End and back to York , a total of approximately 2,000 miles .
11 Possible town houses are suggested by the mosaics found in the vicinity of Ivel House and in the area north of Limington Road close to Green Cutting in Kingshams Field .
12 We were staying in a seedy hotel in San Francisco close to the red light district .
13 Soviet authority had already collapsed in two towns in south-east Azerbaijan close to the Iranian border — Jalilabad , where Popular Front activists had seized control on Dec. 29 after driving out government and CP officials and police , and Lenkoran , where similar events occurred on Jan. 11 .
14 Four robbers , two of whom were believed to be armed , threatened two security guards at the side entrance of the post office in Constitution Street close to the headquarters of Tayside police in Bell Street .
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