Example sentences of "had moved to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had moved to the edges of our previously closed system of thought and action , both physically and philosophically , and almost implicitly came to recognize that the ‘ foundation metaphors ’ which Turner identifies as being crucial to transformational experience of liminality were making paradigmatic statements about our own cultural format ; although I know we would have been unable to articulate this . |
| 2 | My parents had moved to the outskirts of Glasgow and I joined the local pipe band and met Duncan McIntyre . |
| 3 | Jack Jones found himself assailed by Paul Johnson , the ex-editor of the New Statesman who had moved to the far right , as ‘ The Emperor Jones ’ , almost a fourth estate of the realm in himself and the symbol of overweening trade-union power . |
| 4 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |
| 5 | Mariana had moved to the table where he had left the map . |
| 6 | By this time the trial of Mrs Dyer had moved to the Old Bailey . |
| 7 | When the County School had moved to the Oxford side of the town in 1930 , generous provision of land had been made and that was prudently added to over the years . |
| 8 | Review the requirement for computer support of outposted files as an added value factor once a department network had been installed ( Note : this was due to take place after the departments had moved to the new accommodation ) . |
| 9 | Meanwhile in 1974 , revived British effort had moved to the clear waters of Loch Morar ( which had a similar tradition of sighting established by The Loch Morar Survey of 1970–72 ) . |
| 10 | We needed to make ground ; the winds , though still stormy , had moved to the southwest . |
| 11 | A different tactical response by the US asbestos industry was to export its hazardous production to other non-regulated peripheral countries such as Mexico and the South American countries , following earlier examples of asbestos companies who had moved to the southern US states to avoid higher insurance costs in the northern states . |
| 12 | By the late autumn Spee 's flotilla of five ships had moved to the Juan Fernandez Islands some 644km/400mls west of Chile . |
| 13 | But by November 1914 , the Allies knew that Spee 's squadron had moved to the coast of South America and only the Emden could intercept the convoy . |
| 14 | The engagement which followed was hardly even a skirmish , but it had been directed against the king , and in December , after Lancaster had moved to the midlands to gather reinforcements , the king wrote to the City of London complaining that Lancaster intended to attack him . |
| 15 | The powerful London Society of Compositors managed to see that women were on the whole excluded from the capital , even if some employers who had moved to the provinces did employ women . |
| 16 | Empirical evidence also began to build up , and Spooner ( 1972 ) , in a study of employers who had moved to the southwest found that more of them cited the attractive environment of Devon and Cornwall as reasons for moving to the area , than its labour supply , and Lonsdale and Browning ( 1971 , 267 ) found that manufacturing plants in 10 southern USA States were more orientated to rural than urban areas and that : ‘ manufacturing firms appear to be placing increased emphasis on rural and small town sites ’ . |
| 17 | They were told by the people next door that Mr Brownlow had moved to the West Indies six weeks before . |
| 18 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 19 | The other had moved to the right . |
| 20 | Forester had moved to the window and looked out into the yard where the two long-wheelbase Land Rovers stood side by side , somehow managing to be tough and elegant at the same time in their rough-country rig with full-length roof racks and mounted searchlights . |
| 21 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 22 | By 1668 Fromanteel himself had moved to The Hague , where he had earlier trading and perhaps family connections . |
| 23 | By this time the interior was differentiated , and much of the radioactive material had moved to the surface regions ( section 6.3.4 ) . |
| 24 | It must be late , there was an eerie splash of light , a bar across the taps and the edge of the table — the moon had moved to the gap between the two houses opposite , to a position where a finger of light came through the kitchen window . |
| 25 | Even though her parents had moved to the States , she still had friends here , people she had grown up with . |
| 26 | The Eugenics Society , with about 800 fellows and members in 1938–39 , was deeply concerned , and had moved to the left on the issue of educational reform as a result . |
| 27 | The German Herbarium did not have a copy of the thesis , but they did advise that the botanist had moved to the United States after completion of her doctorate degree . |
| 28 | It had moved to the south-west , isolating untouched the stretch of forest between the high road and the marsh of the river . |
| 29 | The imperial frontier had moved to the south , but pockets of unconquered territory remained in the rear . |
| 30 | By this time , Share My Lettuce had moved to the West End and the Comedy Theatre . |