Example sentences of "[vb past] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Stop Your Fussin , with a subtle reggae beat to the haunting Where 's The Ocean and finally the memorable Let The Rain Come Down , insinuating animation and acquiescence from a failed relationship , the album is tremendously good and truely ambitious . |
| 2 | Such conditions led to areas of swamp which were a natural trap for unwary animals which ventured to the river to drink . |
| 3 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
| 4 | She moved to the neighbours ' wall and sprayed ‘ fornicator ’ and ‘ debauchee ’ . |
| 5 | Bob , a keen home brewer , took over from his parents when the plant moved to the farm in 1989 . |
| 6 | The leader 's chair was occupied by the familiar and welcome figure of Bradley Creswick , who recently moved to the Philharmonia from the Newcastle-based Northern Sinfonia . |
| 7 | Tullow Oil slipped 0.5p to 17.5p as it moved to the USM . |
| 8 | I moved to the back of my trench as Taff stood up to man the gun . |
| 9 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 10 | From there he moved to the trade paper Music Business Weekly and on to Melody Maker and Disc before joining A&M Records as press officer . |
| 11 | Being shortsighted I moved to the front while my mother stayed at the back . |
| 12 | Then they all moved to the front of the house to watch the road and wait . |
| 13 | Cullam fidgeted , he moved to the crock-filled sink , leaning on it compressing his lips . |
| 14 | After spending six months as a landing officer , he moved to the kitchens . |
| 15 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 16 | After the knee operation he moved to the slips , and of course proved pretty useful there , too . |
| 17 | From there , by natural progression , Jinny moved to the memory of herself , crying into Keith 's comfortable jumper . |
| 18 | It was the fringe of the Conservative Party , and those prominent politicians who moved to the fringe , who disagreed with one or more of those policies — ranging from the Lord Rothermere , the press baron , to Winston Churchill and , eventually , Anthony Eden . |
| 19 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 20 | They married , and she moved to the States , where — in defiance of sexism , and her uncle Cyril , who once accosted her in a New York club with the words , ‘ Does your father know what you 're doing ? ’ — she became one of the most highly regarded piano players in Manhattan . |
| 21 | Leicester 19pts Northampton 22 NORTHAMPTON , boosted by 14 points from outside-half John Steele , moved to the top of Courage League One last night after the narrowest of victories in a splendid contest at Welford Road . |
| 22 | When Lord Waddington moved to the Home Office , Mr Patten was invited to become Minister of the Arts , with his own department . |
| 23 | The Yard and the FBI believe that many of the banks have been used in tax evasion schemes , by fraudsters and to launder money for South American cocaine cartels , which moved to the island after the US authorities applied pressure on the Panamanian banking system . |
| 24 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 25 | Winter , a former Great Britain international , was appointed after his predecessor , Mike Proudfoot , moved to the United States . |
| 26 | Three years later , in 1976 , he moved to the UKAEA 's Harwell Laboratory where he was recruited into a newly-formed section called Future Developments Group , investigating long term opportunities for Harwell , including biotechnology and marine technology . |
| 27 | Grant was very much a ‘ practising chemist ’ and moved to the analytical practice of Hehner and Cox in 1948 . |
| 28 | I moved to the door and ‘ opened it ’ an inch . |
| 29 | Mike shrugged and moved to the door , and then Graham 's voice pulled him back . |
| 30 | And from the cities they moved to the forest where their attitudes to the locals were as racist as Limeño attitudes were to them : to the extent that David observed , ‘ Tropical cultures are disappearing faster than the rainforests themselves . ’ |