Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] to [noun prp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After returning to Bombay early in 1858 he was appointed the East India Company 's agent in Zanzibar and British consul , the previous consul having died at his post thirteen months previously . |
| 2 | He then worked for eighteen months in the Southampton naval works before returning to Glasgow late in 1891 as an assistant lecturer in naval architecture and marine engineering at the university , and it was soon after this that his intensive study of the design of bird-like gliders began . |
| 3 | Before moving to London permanently in 1757 he produced A Plan of the River Nene , from Thrapston to Northampton , with the Mills and Locks necessary for the Navigation ( 1754 ) , and A Plan of the Road from Towcester in the County of Northampton , to Weston Gate in the County of Oxford ( 1756 ) . |
| 4 | The Pope spoke these words , which allow the Soviet leader a suitable period for reflection , before travelling to Asia yesterday on a 10-day visit . |
| 5 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 6 | On returning to Genappe shortly after its capture by the fusiliers , he found them ‘ busy ’ … |
| 7 | By flying to Estonia immediately after the army 's attack on the television tower in Vilnius and uncompromisingly condemning it , Mr Yeltsin swung Russia 's democrats behind the Baltic nationalists . |