Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mushtaq , who had been spinning widely to Gower out of the rough , drifted a glorious topspinner through that doughty defence to unseat England 's skipper for 135 . |
| 2 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 3 | The management intend he will remain with the party , though obviously the lengthy bus journey to Nadi yesterday as the prelude to a three-and-a-half hour flight to Sydney today , could have a detrimental effect . |
| 4 | When my right hon. Friend goes to Barrow later in the week , will he congratulate Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. and its work force there on the excellent job that they have done in constructing the vessels to specification and to schedule ? |
| 5 | Are you going to Guildford tomorrow in the lorry ? |
| 6 | It all depends on the scrap merchant , like they used to send a lot of scrap iron erm from Ipswich to Germany just before the war , well they used to send they reckon they send to Danzig |
| 7 | Bicester rugby club drive towards another Twickenham appearance when they travel to Ongar tomorrow in the quarter finals of the Provincial Cup . |
| 8 | Rodrigo himself acquired 1000 horses , and he sent 200 of these to Alfonso along with the elaborate silken tent of the Almoravid leader , its carved posts decorated with gold . |
| 9 | Though he was an adequate mariner , he was by no means an expert fisherman , being the sort of man who makes more conversation than profit from his catches ; but after a trip across to Plymouth early in the new year , he returned looking exceedingly pleased with himself , dressed in finer clothes than were often seen on the Polruan side of the Fowey , and full of the news that he intended to commission John Knollys to build him a bark of a hundred tons . |
| 10 | This romantic tale casts back to Ruritania especially in the implied distinction between city and country . |
| 11 | It made a £3m upfront payment to Lloyds out of the total £10m agreed . |
| 12 | Lord Gnome had returned to Branson intermittently over the years , christening him ‘ a reptilian little shit ’ in stories which Branson always maintained were ‘ inaccuracies ’ . |
| 13 | He did homage to Edward explicitly for the land held by him of the English king , but is reputed to have added ‘ saving my kingdom of Scotland ’ . |
| 14 | Notwithstanding an iffy technique against spin you would still back him to take the attack to Pakistan ahead of the brat pack snapping at his heels . |
| 15 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ It would n't be worth dragging all the way to Spain just for the three of us , darling . ’ |
| 17 | A state of relative peace prevailed in West Beirut in the first few months of 1990 , partly owing to a Jan. 25 decision by the Lebanese Cabinet to endorse the West Beirut security plan agreed between Hrawi and the Syrian government during the former 's visit to Damascus earlier in the month . |
| 18 | Now before we move further I 'd like to take this opportunity of expressing on your behalf our thanks to Hugh here for the service that he 's rendered our church to this point in time but particularly as the convenor of the Board of World Mission and Unity . |
| 19 | They rode back to Kinsai late in the afternoon . |
| 20 | Most radical opinion was outraged by the fact that Britain should be reversing its traditional hostility to Russia just at the moment when defeat by the Japanese in 1904–5 , and the revolutionary upheavals which followed , had rocked the foundations of Tsarist tyranny . |
| 21 | In 1940 he married Rose Paul-Schiff , a Viennese , whose family was connected with the banking firm of Warburg Schiff and came to England just before the Anschluss . |
| 22 | Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year . |
| 23 | His wife Renée , was a cousin of Sigmund Gestetner , who emigrated to England early in the 1930s and made a personal fortune with the copying machine that carried his name . |
| 24 | Well if , I tell you , if I thought if I thought for one minute that we were gon na come back to England like in the next year , which we wo n't cos Tony 's got another year to do now , it 's a bit longer than we thought it was |
| 25 | Maybe I 'll get there one day , or I might take a day trip to EuroDisney sometime in the summer months . |
| 26 | I was born in what is now Russia , and when I came to Scotland shortly before the war the small Jewish grocery shops in the Gorbals district of Glasgow were my main link with home . |
| 27 | I once walked from Shieldaig to Annat long before the two communities were linked by a modern road , a woodland path pointing the way . |
| 28 | News of its intended publication filtered through to Orkney late on the Saturday night . |
| 29 | The young reporters had spoken to Wells soon after the murder . |
| 30 | Processes which govern the ability of the terminal to respond during sustained activity , such as the synthesis of transmitter , the transport and filling of vesicles and their release from the cytoskeletal cage , will contribute to LTP only to the extent that they influence either the probability of fusion , or the amount of transmitter packed into vesicles . |