Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delegations from Algeria and Yemen travelled to Moscow but withdrew at the last moment in solidarity with the Palestinian delegation . |
| 2 | He did not raise his eyes to Melanie but stared at the backs of his hands . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | D' ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? |
| 6 | A general strike by supporters of both sides ( but predominantly Hungarians ) had been called in surrounding regions and the Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Németh sent a letter of protest to Bucharest and appealed to the UN to intervene . |
| 7 | I waved to Toby and went for the door . |
| 8 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 9 | ‘ Get him , ’ I said to Curtis and pointed to the stairs . |
| 10 | They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows , then took a rowing boat on the River Dee . |
| 11 | From Middleton Bridge we followed the Rawthey to Brigflatts and sat in the garden in the sun , a black tulip growing solitary amongst the mass of wild flowers below one of the windows . |
| 12 | Tom handed the reins to Carrie and leaped from the light cart , heading for a nearby cottage . |
| 13 | She turned back to Elinor and said in the rather loud , slow , and contrived voice that people use for the deaf , ‘ I 've brought you a surprise , Nell . ’ |
| 14 | The new mayors were summoned to Amman and reminded of the value of good relations for marketing agricultural produce to Jordan . |
| 15 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 16 | Increased Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel that began at the end of 1989 placed a major obstacle in the way of improved relations between Israel and the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | Swainson had got to know some of the leading zoologists in London on his return from his voyage , and when writing the scientific descriptions of the birds collected on Franklin 's polar journeys he had gone to Paris and worked in the Museum there . |
| 18 | He then knelt and confessed his sin to God and asked for the forgiveness that is in Christ to be his . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Jed handed the gun to McGowan and climbed into the driver 's seat . |
| 21 | When he sensed that the politicians were afraid enough of the army to come to terms with him ( as they seemed to be after learning that troops based in Algeria had seized control of the island of Corsica on 24 – 25 May ) , he flashed a red light to Algiers and moved on the political front in Paris . |
| 22 | Everyone else had gone to Japan and I was still in New York trying desperately to get a visa for Russia but I could n't get one , so I convince Tony deFries that if I went to Japan and went to the Russian Embassy in Tokyo , they 'd be so confused by an American applying for a visa in Tokyo 's Embassy that i could fake it and get one , and he said I was welcome to try . |
| 23 | After a few minutes , she handed him to Joan and agreed to the adoption . |
| 24 | He went to London and served in the retinues of the great ones . |
| 25 | I learned that my parents had got to London and prayed for the day I 'd be able to see them . |
| 26 | I stayed on to teach philosophy — you went off to London and disappeared into the Civil Service . |
| 27 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 28 | Joseph of Arimathaea , a member of the Sanhedrin who was obviously sympathetic to Jesus ( Matthew claims he had become a secret disciple ) , went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus . |
| 29 | As we looked across the water to Corinth and listened to the haunting bouzouki music I saw why so many people return year after year to Poseidon . |