Example sentences of "[vb past] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They awarded me a seat behind a pillar for this French farce , but foolishly I moved to a place where I had a full view of the stage . |
| 2 | Joan and Michael Ramsey moved to a house in Newnham , not far from where he lodged when he was vicar of St Benet 's eleven years before : 3 Wordsworth Grove . |
| 3 | He moved to a cabinet whose door handles were the long curved tails of dragons . |
| 4 | Their relationship became more and more covert ; he left the police and they moved to a suburb where they ‘ passed for white ’ and began the long struggle called ‘ trying for white ’ . |
| 5 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
| 6 | In January 1673 , he began a regular Friday lecture in a church near Fetter Lane , and at Easter time , the Baxters moved to a house in Bloomsbury . |
| 7 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
| 8 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 9 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 10 | So in 1959 we moved to a large , ark-like Victorian farmhouse in Hampshire which I share today with our vast collection of children 's toys . |
| 11 | I moved to a yellow and tartan design . |
| 12 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 13 | After 27 years at Sywell Airport , the Barnstormers Flying Circus have packed their tent and moved to a new home at Spanhoe Airfield , near RAF Wittering in the north of Northamptonshire . |
| 14 | Nell moved to a collection of cans and packets on the floor near him , kneeling as she ignited a solid fuel heater . |
| 15 | About three years ago we moved to a farm . |
| 16 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
| 17 | Anthea moved to a mirror and smoothed her closely permed black hair before stepping forward with a smile on her lips . |
| 18 | A social worker was called in and , with a lot of support , Annie moved to a women 's refuge and then to a small flat . |
| 19 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 20 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
| 21 | Satisfied that it was ‘ more than possible ’ for the Kavanaghs to survive , they moved to a house near Oxford and he began to study . |
| 22 | His father secured a civil service transfer to a post in Scotland and at the beginning of September moved to a house about three miles from where Derek and his wife had settled . |
| 23 | It had been a heady day when she noticed the photograph no longer in a place of honour , on the chest of drawers , but moved to a shelf where it could hardly be seen , and then face down , and then in the bottom of a drawer . |
| 24 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 25 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
| 26 | Otherwise , it was a sort of limbo , and it was n't until we moved to a council house in Southall in the outer suburbs of London that the shades of the prison-house began to close . |
| 27 | In King Ine 's laws the smith was rated as the equal of the reeve and a child 's nurse , who , being servants , could be taken with a gesithcund man if he moved to a different area ( ibid. p. 104 ) . |
| 28 | But yesterday , at 4lb 2oz and 17 inches , he moved to a hospital nearer the family 's Hebden Bridge house . |
| 29 | Later she moved to a proper — and vast — gallery on West Broadway . |
| 30 | With the scratch foil system , the styli and the arms they are mounted on have a definable mass which must be accelerated , moved to a different position and then decelerated to the new value every time there is a change in the magnitude of the parameter . |