Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London . |
| 3 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 4 | Among other personal touches , he introduces seafaring imagery on several occasions : Christ is helmsman in psalm 31 , and in psalm 89 he adds to the raging sea of verse 9 a reference to the navy which is very expressive of his Englishness . |
| 5 | In September 1922 I went to the Royal College of Music to study the piano under Harold Samuel ( the great Bach player of the time ) . |
| 6 | In chapters 15 to 17 we apply to the individual profile components the principles set out in chapter 14 . |
| 7 | If this is danced to 6/8 it leads to the very swift footwork needed fur Massine 's tarantella and Ashton 's version of the Italian pas de deux in Swan Lake , a miracle of timing and quick changes of éauiement . |
| 8 | In Chapter 1 I referred to the changing attitude among the leaders of Eurocommunism towards the institutions of Western democracy , and their radical reconsideration of the Leninist model of a revolutionary working-class party , which was elaborated in specific historical circumstances and no longer has any relevance for the politics of socialist parties , particularly in the advanced industrial societies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
| 11 | On 11 December 1272 he transferred to the new archbishop of Canterbury , Robert Kilwardby [ q.v. ] , the spiritualities of the see and on the following day was the only bishop recorded as present in London at an important declaration concerning royal rights in respect of this papal provision of Kilwardby . |
| 12 | In 1578 he subscribed to the first unsuccessful colonizing voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | In December 1990 it came to the other directors ' knowledge that M and another manager , Elizabeth Melon , the software sales manager , intended to start a new company and to take over the distribution of the Boeing software . |
| 14 | In 1609–20 it belonged to the Czech Brothers and the father-in-law of Comenius preached here . |
| 15 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |