Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] to [art] west " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the East Germans assumed West Germany had again dug into its pocket to ‘ buy out ’ East Germans seeking to come to the West . |
| 2 | The weekend had begun with a briefing from the Major and from a purported Russian spy seeking to defect to the west and who , meanwhile , was staying in a safe house . |
| 3 | On May 15 six former East German leaders were charged in connection with the May 1974 " shoot-to-kill " order which resulted in the death of more than 200 people seeking to escape to the West across the inter-German border . |
| 4 | Grand Slam The Hunt For Red October casts the player in the role of a Russian submarine commander attempting to defect to the West . |
| 5 | But despite all the authorities ' attempts to pretend that all goes well , the birthday celebrations are moving forward in the shadow of a public mood of national crisis , dramatised by the tens of thousands of East Germans struggling to flee to the West in recent weeks . |
| 6 | However , Tourism Minister Mihai Lupoi had admitted on Jan. 3 that people wishing to travel to the West would have to find their own hard currency , since the state could not afford to sell any in exchange for lei . |
| 7 | On May 20 the former Chairman of the East German Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph , 76 , the Minister of National Defence in 1985-89 , Heinz Kessler , 71 , and two members of the former East German National Defence Council , Fritz Streletz , 71 , and Hans Albrecht , 81 , were arrested on charges of incitement to manslaughter in connection with the East German government 's " shoot-to-kill " policy towards those trying to escape to the West . |