Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
| 2 | Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oögenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 6 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
| 7 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
| 8 | They left the house in Chertsey and moved to a quiet cottage in the country , taking Oliver with them . |
| 9 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
| 10 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 11 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
| 12 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
| 13 | ‘ When Agnes disappeared , ’ replied Monks , ‘ her father changed his name and moved to a lonely place in Wales , where no one would know about the family shame . |
| 14 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 15 | Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son , Stefan . |
| 16 | Begun in 1960 , in 1984 the fair moved to the ample space of the Fiera which is better equipped to deal with the growing number of visitors and exhibitors . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 20 | He matriculated at Wadham College , Oxford , in 1667 , moved to the Inner Temple in 1670 , and was called to the bar in 1673 . |
| 21 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 22 | Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out . |
| 23 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 24 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 25 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 26 | Ian always wanted to work in industry , and in April 1986 , he moved to the Legal Department of British Coal [ then still known as the National Coal Board ] , specialising first in property work in the Gateshead office , and the following year joining a team of commercial solicitors based in Doncaster . |
| 27 | It is a welcome return from the golfing wilderness for the former Durham County champion who carried hopes of a highly successful professional career when he moved to the paid ranks after gaining international honours some five years ago . |
| 28 | This was an important loss of potential moderate middle class support , who moved to the right wing in opposition to the republic . |
| 29 | After three ‘ glorious ’ years with the BBC , he moved to the still-young News at Ten in 1973 . |
| 30 | Grant was very much a ‘ practising chemist ’ and moved to the analytical practice of Hehner and Cox in 1948 . |