Example sentences of "who moved to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passing parade of international players means that even with the loss of McGahan , North Harbour can still call on three international halfbacks : Strachan , Matthew Vaea and Tu Nu'auli'itia — the latter two Western Samoan World Cup halfbacks who moved to North Harbour clubs last winter . |
| 2 | Mr Sutton , 51 , who moved to Llangybi , near Lampeter , from Kent seven years ago , believes he is a target because he refuses to place advertisements solely in Welsh in his shop window . |
| 3 | Harford , who moved to Chelsea last summer and has since scored 10 goals , is now backing United to become the first Premier League champions . |
| 4 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a marvellous feeling to know your name will go into the record books alongside all the greats of the past like Bobby Moore , ’ said the player who moved to Italy from Aston Villa for £5million . |
| 6 | It was n't just the old and the rich who moved to Moon Beach . |
| 7 | Malhotra replaced Virendra Verma , who moved to Himachal Pradesh , replacing Basavaiah Rachaiah , who was transferred to Kerala . |
| 8 | She is a model who moved to New York and becomes part of the Manhattan social scene . |
| 9 | Jim , who moved to New York 16 years ago , had never heard of her , although she 's a familiar face to British audiences . |
| 10 | The new signings also face the pressure of winning over the fans who idolised Ian Wright , now at Arsenal , and Mark Bright who moved to Sheffield Wednesday last week . |
| 11 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 12 | The firm was founded by Etienne de Tessier , a Huguenot who moved to London in 1712 , and whose grandson probably bought from French Revolutionary emigrés . |
| 13 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 14 | Among the more conspicuous were Yolande Pompey , who challenged unsuccessfully for Archie Moore 's world light-heavyweight title in London in 1956 , and Hogan ‘ Kid ’ Bassey , a Nigerian who moved to Liverpool in 1952 , three years later won the Commonwealth featherweight title and , in 1957 , won the world featherweight title , before eventually returning to Nigeria as national boxing coach . |
| 15 | Ellcock , who moved to Lord 's in 1989 after seven seasons with Worcestershire , took 117 wickets ( 29.01 ) in his firstclass career . |
| 16 | Among the issues discussed was compensation for the 800 Volhynian Czechs who moved to Czechoslovakia after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 [ see pp. 34460-62 ] . |
| 17 | Michele Bou , 40 , who moved to Sorn Green , Glenrothes , about ten years ago when he married his Fife-born wife , Theresa , was flown by RAF helicopter to the neurological unit at Glasgow 's Southern General Hospital from Belford Hospital in Fort William on Sunday suffering from head injuries . |
| 18 | Vancouver Rowing Club lock Andy Wilson , who moved to Canada from South Africa about four years ago . |
| 19 | It was his great-grandson — the first Henry Overton Wills — who moved to Bristol where by 1786 he had become a partner in a tobacco business . |
| 20 | Miss Miller was answering a plea for advice by Steve Reese , 28 , who moved to Bristol after his home in Newcastle upon Tyne was repossessed — and then saw his photographic business collapse as interest rates ‘ went daft ’ . |
| 21 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 22 | Mosbacher , 64 , like Bush a native easterner who moved to Texas and made a personal fortune in oil and gas , had served as Bush 's national finance chairman in 1988 and was once again expected to concentrate on financing the campaign . |
| 23 | Jim 's sisters are Sarah Knaggs , who moved to Skelton , and Lizzie Ann Hillary , who may still live in Darlington . |
| 24 | It looks certain that out-of-contract Rosenthal , who moved to Anfield from Standard Liege three years ago , will leave the Reds , having refused to sign a one-year deal . |