Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] and [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 2 | The arrangement was for Dorli and Lieserl to be looked after by a young Leeds couple , Theo and Tilly Hall , who had offered to take in refugee children . |
| 3 | We had gone through Mullinavat and came to a village whose name I do not know — if it ever had one . |
| 4 | Come back through England and went to on the boat . |
| 5 | The Forest Of Shadows encompasses most of the principality of Ostland and lies to the north of the Middle Mountains . |
| 6 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 7 | At the beginning of September , he slipped out of Holyrood and went to Falkirk . |
| 8 | The Taunton Commission ( 1864–8 ) was critical of the impoverished inefficiency of Thame and led to the reform of Emanuel . |
| 9 | Significantly , farmers — generally reliable Tory supporters — are blaming the Government for the sins of Brussels and appear to be turning a blind eye to the Liberal Democrats ' pro-European stance . |
| 10 | The last task of the day for the humanitarian branch is to visit the village of Mammari and speak to the local farmers . |
| 11 | We call upon all Arabs each according to his potentials and capabilities within the teachings of Allah and according to the Moslem Holy War of Jihad to fight this , this U S presence of non-believers . |
| 12 | Settling the dispute took many years and several surveys , carried out by Bowes in 1542 , 1550 and 1580 ; and Johnson and Goodwin in 1604 produced : ‘ A survey of the Debatable and Border Lands adjoining the Realm of Scotland and belonging to the Crown of England , taken in 1604 . ’ |
| 13 | The Palace , set in idyllic leafy grounds in west London ( the first magnolia to be cultivated in Europe was grown here ) , is owned by Church of England and sub-let to Hammersmith and Fulham Council who have contributed to the cost of the new rooms . |
| 14 | It is an obligation of the discount houses to bid for Treasury bills at the weekly tender ; the proportion of each issue that individual discount houses tender for is agreed with the Bank of England and corresponds to the size of the capital base of the discount house . |
| 15 | Last week I received three letters from her all addressed to the Commando area in the South of England and forwarded to Normandy . |
| 16 | Henry Oakeley , who had succeeded his brother as squire of Lydham and moved to ‘ Oakeley Manor ’ ( now Lydham Manor ) , actually died while enquiring about the Railway , on 12th March 1877 , the year in which the Bailiffs Incident occurred . |
| 17 | ‘ The pity was that Brian Faulkner did n't refuse to accept the Council of Ireland and stick to it . |
| 18 | Once before , you rose up from the great forests of Ireland and came to the aid of our greatest King of all , Cormac of the Wolves . |
| 19 | The isolated cremations found in the Ailias cemetery on the eastern fringes of Knossos and dating to around 1600 BC may be the graves of foreigners from Anatolia , where cremation burials were the norm . |
| 20 | He wanted to know how I knew that they were nine miles towards Mali and seemed to be bothered that I was only guessing . |
| 21 | Lord George did not long remain in command of such a small vessel , however , and no sooner did he attain a more substantial command than the Duke of Montrose sent orders for the sons of the lairds of Auchenbowie and Balfunning to be sent to London with a view to joining Lord George . |
| 22 | Steve Harris , a director who joined Medeva soon after Taylor , had experience of OTC and explained to Chemistry in Britain the rationale for this decision . |
| 23 | The Centre ( originally established in the University of Aberdeen and transferred to the University of Edinburgh in 1986 ) is concerned with the study of the Christian faith in its full world context . |
| 24 | , William Marcus Joseph ( 1798–1883 ) , member of Parliament , was born in Ireland 17 April 1797 or possibly in 1798 , after the death of his father , the youngest in the family of two sons and two daughters of Marcus Beresford , MP ( grandson of Sir Marcus Beresford , first Earl of Tyrone and counsel to the Irish revenue commissioners ) , and his wife Frances Arabella , daughter of Joseph Leeson , first Earl of Milltown . |
| 25 | He was thrown out of Chicago and fled to New York where he built a palace and filled it with Old Masters . |
| 26 | ‘ I climbed out of Blackpool and changed to Warton , who gave me transponder code and climb clearance to 3,000 feet — just below the cloudbase . |
| 27 | On the death of his father in 1809 , he became head of the Munros of Novar and succeeded to large estates , including that of Novar House , Ross-shire , thus becoming one of the chief landed proprietors in the counties of Ross , Cromarty , and Moray . |
| 28 | The impromptu petition was apparently drawn up at a dinner given by the Society of Dilettanti and sent to the Arts Minister , Mr Richard Luce . |
| 29 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 30 | They came together with pride and passion , each glorying in the belief that Hans Christian Andersen had been right and that their fairy-tale had indeed been written by the fingers of God and come to fruition in the Enchanted Garden that had captured the heart of a city . |