Example sentences of "[num] of [pos pn] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DOZENS more East German refugees arrived outside the West German embassy yesterday seeking asylum and passage to the West , including some who missed by only a few minutes a train that took more than 800 of their compatriots to West Germany . |
| 2 | Egerton name change : Egerton Trust , the housebuilder and property developer , has changed the names of six of its subsidiaries to Egerton to reflect the exposure of the group . |
| 3 | Between 1717 and 1734 Dale sent nineteen of his pupils to St. John 's College , Cambridge , and two others to Trinity . |
| 4 | VINTAGE & ROTARY Wing Collection ( see also page 17 ) have passed on three of their gliders to collector and restorer Nigel Ponsford : Cadet TX.1 RA854 , Grasshopper TX.1 XK819 and Grunau Baby BGA. 1410 — the latter having been transferred to the Real Aeroplane Club at Breighton . |
| 5 | This seems to have been , at least in part , the motive behind a walking-tour which Pound took in 1911 , of which we learn in chapter 16 of his Guide to Kulchur , written twenty years later : |
| 6 | For instance , a group of adolescents intending to look at how a family might drive one of its members to suicide , began their drama by working out the family 's relative positions round the graveside , concerning themselves with ‘ how it would look if it were a still photograph ’ . |
| 7 | Involved in the construction of the Great Central Railway 's ‘ London Extension ’ , one of her claims to fame was her involvement in the building of the long-gone Nottingham Victoria Station . |
| 8 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 9 | The " silent picture " had been one of their lifelines to enjoyment . |
| 10 | Hospital administrators have condemned a business course which sent one of their staff to America on Concorde . |
| 11 | On one of their trips to Ipswich , Kate insisted on buying him a present , a Ronson Varaflame gas lighter . |
| 12 | Our reporter Erika Barnes and cameraman Steve Dann joined the RAF on one of their missions to Bosnia . |
| 13 | Bartram seemed particularly grieved when , in 1744 , he learned that a letter about one of his journeys to Lake Ontario might be lost with |
| 14 | I should think that would figure in one of his reports to London . ’ |
| 15 | In one of his letters to Gould in Australia , Prince writes , ‘ I and Joseph are both much pleased to hear so good a report of Gilbert . |
| 16 | In one of his letters to Salt Gandhi wrote that he had become a confirmed vegetarian after reading Salt 's essays published under the title The Logic of Vegetarianism ( 1897 ) . |
| 17 | Hermitage with its tiny church dozes beneath High Stoy from where Grace Melbury watched her erring husband ride away on one of his visits to Mrs Charmond , and , a few miles to the west , Melbury Bubb is tucked beneath Bubb Down Hill , seemingly oblivious to the outside world . |
| 18 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 19 | He told how , on one of his visits to Delhi , the legendary Mullah Nasir-ud-Din arrived in the city in the middle of Ramadan . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 21 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 22 | His elder brother had been to Yugoslavia , one of his sisters to Greece . |
| 23 | Moreover , another of Sighvat 's poems , Erlingsflokkr , on the Norwegian Erling Skjalgsson , mentions the marriage of one of his sisters to Ragnvald , father of Ulf , and verse 19 of Austrfararvísur includes an unnamed brother of Ulf . |
| 24 | It is one of our claims to civilization that we have transcended the level of existence at which survival means making sure you get your nose in the trough and using your elbows to keep others out . |
| 25 | I sent one of our officials to Mogadishu and northern Somalia just over a week ago . |
| 26 | How dare you send one of your killers to Acropolis Park ! ’ |
| 27 | Emma Southworth went with two of her workmates to classes every evening after she finished at the mill . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , well , please yourself , ’ he said and , worried lest Primrose should have felt excluded from the conversation , as well as the trip to Southampton , he offered to give her two of his tickets to Wimbledon . |
| 29 | We have to pay one-third of our turnover to Judge Colpeper for the privilege , so you 'll have to dig deep into your purse . ’ |