Example sentences of "a [noun] [v-ing] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From its terminus in Tamworth Road , West Croydon , the company had a route running to Mitcham and Tooting , while another ran to Wallington , Carshalton and Sutton . |
| 2 | Under the various agreements , Ilo would be developed jointly as a free zone with full industrial and commercial facilities , with Peru allowing free access to Bolivian goods along a route leading to Ilo from the Bolivian border town of Desaguadero . |
| 3 | It was a difficult move , he admits , not because he did not want to leave Scotland ‘ if you 're happy , it does n't matter where you are , and if you 're unhappy it does n't matter where you are ’ — but because ‘ a Scotsman coming to London to run the national firm is n't everybody 's cup of tea ’ . |
| 4 | There was a saloon going to Chicago but there was a sports car to Los Angeles . |
| 5 | But as you go on into verse three , and it talks about this relationship again , er , it says he , she came to a field belonging to Boaz who was of the er family of Elimilech . |
| 6 | One of the most impressive series of open-air meetings was held in a field belonging to Mr Shillington , the site of the present Thomas Street church . |
| 7 | Talc Technology has recently sold a majority holding to Ivernia West for £125,000 . |
| 8 | I finally left Luggnagg on a boat sailing to Japan . |
| 9 | The earliest reference known , that of the Domesday survey , mentions a mill belonging to Alkerton Manor . |
| 10 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 11 | Woods belonging to subjects which had been unlawfully withdrawn from the forest — such as the Abbess of Romsey 's woods of Ashton Steeple and Edington in Wiltshire , and a wood belonging to Stratford Mortimer in Berkshire — were once again reclaimed into it . |
| 12 | My space was shared with a girl going to Juliaca , holding a large cardboard box on her lap , and a young family of campesinos . |
| 13 | I can remember as a boy walking to Rochester via the ferry and Wouldham on many occasions but this was only a stroll compared with some of the older inhabitants efforts . |
| 14 | The obvious conclusion to be drawn from this is that precise numbers of TVRs accumulated by a campaign according to BARB , predicted at the planning stage , or promised in a package by a TV contractor , have a significant built-in factor of error : precision is mythical . |
| 15 | I joined a group going to Nagarkot , a hilltop resort on the rim of the Kathmandu valley . |
| 16 | In 1794 she began learning Arabic and Persian from her brother 's oriental dictionary ; in 1796 she studied Hebrew from a Bible belonging to Henrietta Bowdler 's mother . |
| 17 | Best puppy award went to Petrocella , a Newfoundland bitch owned by Ken Pinner of Lindford , Lyn Lane of Headley 's Zeeta , a rare Shibu Inu breed , won the non-sporting title , and Gable , a spaniel belonging to Mrs. Wright of Kingsley , was victor of the open class . |
| 18 | of all those sheep being tu , treading on each other , uri urinating on each other on top of a lorry going to France ? |
| 19 | Only after some time did the cameras finally establish that the belly had a head belonging to Nicholas Soames , the Industry Secretary 's PPS . |
| 20 | A small shadow cast on the general enthusiasm surrounding the deal is the disappointingly low attendance figures at the Villahermosa , around 2,400 a day according to Tomas Llorens , director of the Fundación Thyssen . |
| 21 | It was the merest trickle , four cubic metres a day according to Bertie , precious little for a monastery of thirty monks and related workers arid visitors . |
| 22 | Kvallposten , an evening newspaper in Malmo , reported that a diary belonging to Mr Talb which was seized during police searches shows December 21 1988 — the day on which PanAm 103 blew up — with a circle around it . |
| 23 | The team uncovered a diary belonging to Hitler 's valet and later a will which was authenticated as signed by Hitler . |
| 24 | I think I agree with the gentleman over there I think the youth of this particular town who on average spends somewhere in the region of fifteen and twenty pounds a week going to Highwire and going to pubs erm you need the attraction to the theatre . |
| 25 | The cottagers of Pook 's Common used to have grazing rights but I 'm the only one to keep an animal now and I keep mine in a paddock belonging to Tom . |
| 26 | The apostle Peter has a similar understanding of this primary purpose of the church , when he writes : ‘ You are … a holy nation , a people belonging to God , that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light . ’ |
| 27 | Police kicked down the door of a flat belonging to Maria Shenton 's boyfriend , in Meir , Staffs , suspecting an IRA plot . |
| 28 | A World Apart is , ‘ despite ’ its author 's socialism , a ‘ deeply religious book ’ , in which she has at times the sense of ‘ a man talking to God ’ . |
| 29 | Individual sites like les Roualles , a vineyard belonging to Bollinger , have reputations for producing full-bodied , fruity wines comparable to those from the Montagne de Reims . |
| 30 | This sparked off talk of a tunnel leading to Burghley House where a mythical monastery founded in 1158 by William Waterville was supposed to have stood ( this monastery is still cited in the Burghley House guide book ) . |