Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [noun prp] and [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rutherglen Councillors were bribed by the Glasgow candidate 's supporters , as were their wives with presents of dresses and finery , but the Dixon supporters among the Rutherglen Councillors were invited down to Dumbarton and entertained for a period of ten days , including a cruise on Loch Lomond , a climb to the top of the ben and a stay at the inns at Dumbarton , Tarbet , Luss and Port of Menteith . |
| 2 | She had moved down to London and lived in squats . |
| 3 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 4 | At the end of the day , they would all be taken down to Romaldkirk and put on a train , although on one occasion Sir Emmanuel had his private aeroplane sent up to transport them . |
| 5 | We raced down to Bromley and got to the registry office and there was David 's Mum saying , ‘ You 'll be late for your own wedding . |
| 6 | He went back in to Kate and sat beside her . |
| 7 | It was still early when they went in to Gamages and headed for Ladies ' Gowns . |
| 8 | Army Group E had included seven army corps , one of which , the 15 SS Cossack Cavalry Corps , had already broken through to Austria and surrendered to the British . |
| 9 | For Bolton Abbey ( open all year from dawn to dusk ) , start at the Abbey car park , go north to Simon 's Seat then walk over to Howgill and return on the banks of the River Wharfe . |
| 10 | The shapechanger walked over to Bernice and stood in front of her . |
| 11 | Mortimer and Isabella were hurried off to London and arraigned before parliament in November . |
| 12 | I stayed on to teach philosophy — you went off to London and disappeared into the Civil Service . |
| 13 | The Northern Arts ' Writers Awards 1992 will give two writers the chance to take off to Ireland and work on a literary project free from the distractions of everyday life . |
| 14 | Lizzie is married with four children and a small business ; Frances , her twin sister , is an independent spirit who , one Christmas , goes off to Spain and falls in love with a married Spanish man . |
| 15 | I mean he went off to Italy and bought at great expense a wire saw , have had a wire saw for years and that has n't proved successful . |
| 16 | I was so tired I had to get off my bike twice on the way up to Creeting and sit on the side of the road in the snow for a spell before I could go on . |
| 17 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 18 | A young , red-haired man , dressed simply in a leather jerkin , leggings and boots , came up to Corbett and spoke in an accent the English clerk could not even hope to follow . |
| 19 | Once , in an idle afternoon when the feeling of uselessness which had lately beset me was particularly strong , I went out to Highgate and walked past the house . |
| 20 | Donations can be made out to SCF and sent to Mrs. Dakin , at 54 High View Road , Guildford , Surrey GU2 5RT — or they may be directed to the charity through the Herald editor , at one of the newspaper 's office . |
| 21 | ‘ Go back to Eastlake and concentrate on your own affairs . |
| 22 | The sentence was carried out at Trier , but Priscillian 's body was carried back to Spain and buried in Galicia . |
| 23 | An Israeli nuclear technician , Mordechai Vananu , who came to London and gave away details of Israel 's nuclear weapon plant at Dimona in the Negev desert , was lured from London to Rome by an attractive Mossad agent , then kidnapped , brought back to Israel and put on trial . |
| 24 | ‘ She could have had his body taken back to Liverpool and buried at home , ’ Maureen said . |
| 25 | One solution adopted by Iran appears to have been to send crude off to Aden or other refining centres abroad like Singapore and Italy for processing into products to be sent back to Iran and discharged at storage facilities available at terminals on Gulf islands like Lavan . |
| 26 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 27 | From 1993 the budget will be moved back to December and combined with the expenditure plans ( see below ) . |
| 28 | She had been taken back to Ardeevan and put in one of the observation wards . |
| 29 | She flew back to Lima and wrote to all her clients telling them not to expect any more craft goods : she was quitting and going to work in the jungle . |
| 30 | My parents were quite happy to come back to London and stay with me instead ! |