Example sentences of "[noun] to [noun] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 I went from Alamein to Tobruk then to Syria .
2 The Fohn is the name given to the south wind from the Mediterranean which , when it meets the Alps , precipitates much moisture on the southern aspects and brings dry warmth to areas immediately to the north of the Alps .
3 THE FIRST LAURA ASHLEY ARTICULATED LORRY , WITH ITS BOLD SIXTIES LETTERING , WOULD RUMBLE DOWN THE NARROW LINES FROM CARNO TO LONDON ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY MARAUDING CUSTOMERS WAITING FOR THEIR FAVOURITE STYLES TO ARRIVE .
4 There were girls who followed Must n't Grumble from gig to gig just to be near the boy , recording these concerts on reel-to-reel tape-recorders .
5 Holding back downhill causes sore toes and you could yell with agony and the thought of the two to three miles uphill from Apperley Bridge to Undercliffe still to be tackled .
6 In Spain , in the later 1780s , the foreign minister , Count Floridablanca , began attaching youths in their late teens to missions abroad to be given there some grounding in diplomatic skills : this again does not appear to have gone very far .
7 The result is a drama that remains more worthy than absorbing , despite the excellent performances of Michael Byrne as Roberto and Bill Paterson as Gerardo ( is his Irish accent meant to indicate an application to application to events closer to home , or descent from Bernardo O'Higgins ? ) .
8 The latter included exhortations to consumers to switch off appliances , reductions in supply voltages by 5 per cent ( which was considered the maximum tolerable limit ) , and encouragement to industrialists voluntarily to stagger their factory hours away from peak times .
9 CPRW opposed the issuing of licences to the Hamilton Oil Company to prospect close to Bardsey Island .
10 ‘ Sets + Things ’ is at the Heinz Gallery , Portman Square , London W1 , Mondays to Fridays 11am to 5pm ; Saturdays 10am to 1pm .
11 ‘ My fourth visit to Romania , in June , took me on a return visit to Brasov then to Siret , within walking distance of the Russian border .
12 The quota , in short , forced some British filmmakers to be realistic about the economic constraints operating in British filmmaking , and to look to what could be achieved within them rather than simply hoping that film budgets could rise on some magic carpet to figures close to those of Hollywood pictures .
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