Example sentences of "visits to the [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At return visits to the clinic women are questioned by a doctor or a nurse and the information recorded on a special form , including details of pregnancies and their outcome , changes in contraceptive practices , and reasons for referral to hospital .
2 It will be making early morning visits to the boulder beaches and broken cliffs where it will later lay its two large spotted eggs well out of sight in some crevice .
3 My nocturnal escapades sometimes included visits to the school kitchens , where I ate bananas , leaving a mound of their skins conspicuously on one of the tables , and quantities of ice cream , which I scooped up in handfuls , defiling the common stock with the unhygienic touch of my individuality .
4 The visits to the hill farms were the highlights of our days and from an early age I peopled them in my imagination with a different class of being .
5 The people who thought of buying the house were still hovering , unable to make up their minds , and this entailed some dreary visits to the estate agents .
6 Her work was extremely painful and very dangerous — the examination of corpses , daily visits to the body dumps around San Salvador , the taking of testimonies from relatives of the disappeared .
7 His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet .
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