Example sentences of "it [vb past] to its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It moved to its present site in 1879 . |
2 | The brightest point for the capital has been the performance of the Traverse since it moved to its new £3.4 million home close to the Lyceum and Usher Hall . |
3 | The clashes in January 1987 followed the sacking of print workers by Mr Murdoch 's newspaper group when it moved to its new print plant at Wapping , east London . |
4 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
5 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
6 | The Thorolds , who still live at Marston , kept Sedgebrook until 1928 , after which it reverted to its early life as a farmhouse . |
7 | Quite possibly it reverted to its former use . |
8 | The production of a group of related species on the different islands of an archipelago provided a model for divergent evolution , suggesting that , when a species was divided into separate breeding populations , each of those populations had the ability to change as it adapted to its new environment . |
9 | After the war it returned to its original Brescia-Rome-Brescia route . |
10 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
11 | However , our intrepid knitter resteamed it ( In-Tec method ) and , lo and behold , it stretched to its original length and looked as good as new . |