Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each section flies a zig-zag from here to the Front and back . |
| 2 | One is the daughter of Vortai the Black , and there 's bad blood from here to the Eastern Sea over the marriage . |
| 3 | Indirect Rule was not , as was claimed at the time , just a pragmatic response to circumstances , or a way of breaking the natives in gently to the rigours of civilized living . |
| 4 | Indeed , surprisingly enough , Mrs Thatcher 's reputation , in the doldrums at home at least to the end of 1981 , began to grow in foreign affairs as she became more self-assured . |
| 5 | To get the specimen from overseas to the artist was the normal practice , but sometimes it was possible to take the artist , or to send him , to the animals . |
| 6 | Yet there are people who see the stones throw distance from there to the covered market as an intolerable distance . |
| 7 | This digression is prompted by the experience of watching the Prime Minister trying to horrid to Neil Kinnock twice a week and occasionally trying to put the boot in elsewhere to the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Herr Nordern insisted that he should drive Erika and Omi at least to the S-Bahn station and stood with them until the train came , then , shaking his head , he handed Omi into a carriage . |
| 9 | Once again , the intensity of contact spread over such a long time in the field makes this form of self-monitoring difficult to maintain , and there was also a general resistance from below to the management 's instruction . |
| 10 | Some sergeants conform to this , others do not , but the general resistance from below to the excesses of authority , coupled with a relative autonomy in the work place , affords the men and women in a section the latitude , if they so wish , to ‘ ease ’ , using Cain 's now familiar term ( 1973 ) , or , to use their word , ‘ bluff ’ . |
| 11 | I mean , perhaps our man parked his own car in Reading station car park , then took a train to Maidenhead station and a bus from there to near the river , and went on foot from there to the boatyard … would n't that make sense ? ’ |
| 12 | Charles knew it would be unprofessional to use the pass-door from backstage to the auditorium once the house had started to fill , so he went out of the Stage Door to walk round . |
| 13 | The stairs from here to the top floor stretch upwards around the dilapidated grandeur of the stairwell . |
| 14 | Northampton is superbly located midway between London and Birmingham , close to junctions 15 and 16 of the M1 with easy access from there to the M5 , M6 and M25 . |
| 15 | Escort the interviewee at least to the door , again the behaviour at the parting point can be significant . |
| 16 | As the name suggests , there was once a ferry crossing the river from here to the village of South Ferriby on the south bank , probably from Viking times — about AD 876 until 1300 . |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't be at all surprised if the road from here to the slopes is blocked by tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 18 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 19 | It was not until the crisis of late August 1939 , when the Nazi-Soviet pact was announced , clearly foreshadowing the impending attack on Poland , that the Labour Party and the movement at large shook off its hostility to the government at least to the extent of supporting , and in the crisis of early September demanding , an early declaration of war . |
| 20 | There 's a regular traffic of straw from here to the west country which is mostly pasture-land and needs to order it in from outside the area for animal feed . |
| 21 | To her , it was nothing dreadful after all , but she was compelled to keep silent and pay lip-service at least to the general despair , for fear she would be outlawed otherwise . |
| 22 | Our society pays lip-service at least to the idea of imagination in that the word " imaginative " is normally regarded as a compliment — the opposite of " dull " . |
| 23 | GUIL : ( Excitedly ) Out of the void , finally , a sound ; while on a boat ( admittedly ) outside the action ( admittedly ) the perfect and absolute silence of the wet lazy slap of water against water and the rolling creak of timber — breaks ; giving rise at once to the speculation or the assumption or the hope that something is about to happen ; a pipe is heard . |
| 24 | The success experienced among the eastern Angles with the conversion of Eorpwald may have been due in part at least to the influence of older patterns established by missionaries in the time of Raedwald , but nevertheless it testifies to Eadwine 's real influence in the East Anglian area at this time . |
| 25 | There is one sentiment all the Glosters share from the soldiers of today to the troops who fought for their country 80 years ago . |
| 26 | The contribution of Ultra to the conduct of the war both in terms of grand strategy and in individual operations was incalculable ; and its real rôle is still being assessed . |
| 27 | The ascent from here to the summit looks fairly fearsome but it is not as bad as it seems . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're supposed to be able to walk all the way from here to the coast . ’ |
| 29 | Of the eight contests against America from then to the end of 1989 , the United States won only two . |
| 30 | Craig made his way at once to the study , the desk was locked as he had expected . |