Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 10 May , on Soviet invitation , Gen Keightley went to Voitsberg to confer with the Commander of the Soviet 6 Guards Corps . |
| 2 | The final southbound working to run over the section from Dunford to Sheffield consisted of class 20 No. 20004 and a brake conveying a party of contractors who had been inspecting the remaining part of the route west of Penistone . |
| 3 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 4 | In the circumstances , no member of Katherine 's funeral cortege was particularly surprised that there was trouble at the graveside , though they were relieved Dr Kavanagh had stayed away , the line from New York to Inniskeen quivering with warnings that opening Patrick 's grave would be regarded as desecration . |
| 5 | Over 1300 visitors came to Glenpatrick works on Saturday , 13th October when the doors were opened to families and friends of all who worked there . |
| 6 | Goods trains coming from the Baltic to Moscow took between one and four weeks , a distance that was covered in fourteen hours by passenger trains . |
| 7 | During a visit to Moscow made by Raúl Castro in mid-July 1960 , the USSR not only arranged to supply arms to Cuba , but Khrushchev ‘ reaffirmed that the Soviet Union would use everything to prevent US armed intervention against the Republic of Cuba ’ ( Soviet — Cuban Communiqué , Pravda , 21 July 1960 , p. 1 ) . |
| 8 | The following year saw the passing by Parliament of legislation protecting foreign diplomats against criminal and civil proceedings — the most explicit undertaking of this kind hitherto given by any state — and a special mission to Moscow to apologise to Peter I for the insult offered to his representative . |
| 9 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 10 | At the end of the second world war he was one of a small band which went to Moscow to negotiate with Stalin an agreed programme for ‘ liberated ’ Czechoslovakia . |
| 11 | A RED DEVIL MARK Hughes is sent off by Danish referee Jan Dangaard for a second bookable offence long before Manchester United 's mission to Moscow ends in bitter defeat . |
| 12 | Rattigan will be responsible for ShowMe in Ireland , Sweden , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands : he now wo n't be heading over to Moscow to work at Sun 's long-planned Commonwealth of Independent States operation . |
| 13 | Rattigan will be responsible for ShowMe in Ireland , Sweden , Norway , Finland , Denmark , Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands : he now wo n't be heading over to Moscow to work at Sun 's long-planned Commonwealth of Independent States operation ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 14 | She regularly went to Venezuela to stay with her aunt Alicia and her grandmother Rosa in El Tigre . |
| 15 | The workshop was anxious to know what advice will be given to Mackies to deal with such a situation . |
| 16 | There was a widespread belief in colonial East Africa that men posted to Masailand succumbed to a disease called ‘ Masai-itis ’ , an emotional obsession with the Masai which destroyed their desire to rule . |
| 17 | Then Liza told me that Mrs Mitchell had died in childbirth and that Nelly herself had been taken to Wolverhampton to live with an aunt and uncle . |
| 18 | A week later , the trial was told , MacIver had hired a car and followed the lorry to Inverness to prepare for the robbery . |
| 19 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 20 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 21 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 22 | Suttons of Reading brought 138 greenkeepers to Henley to play after a conference — perhaps their year of looking after the course was done with this in mind . |
| 23 | Every three months she returned to Henley to meet with other students — some international — also doing the course . |
| 24 | One of the earliest objections to Kant lies in his combining an objective view of ethics with the view that morality is properly expressed in imperatives . |
| 25 | Between the two extremities , all is fair to look upon , serene and peaceful ; copses of birch and alder and pines adorn the rocky heights alongside and the water 's edge with occasional open views to the mountains bordering the far shore , along which the old track from Poolewe to Kinlochewe ran through the private estate of Letterewe . |
| 26 | ‘ It has been reported that the completion date has been deferred due to Chelsea appealing to the House of Lords . |
| 27 | Canada 's leading novelist makes a special visit to Brighton to read from work past and present . |
| 28 | ON SUNDAY November 22 , the Bath Area Group of the Swanage Railway Project chartered a ‘ Brakevan Tour ’ on the Severn Valley Railway for a return journey from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth taking in some loops and sidings that are not normally traversed by passenger trains . |
| 29 | The coach to Bridgnorth departs at 9.15 a.m. from the Boar 's Head , Bishop 's Castle and will return there at about 5.30 p.m . |
| 30 | But Sam on the road to Mordor goes beyond both . |