Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athena ( largely lost ) moved to her left , aegis stretched out before her . |
| 2 | Perhaps its remoteness has been its saving grace , coupled with the fact that by the nineteenth century the Pinney family who had built it deemed it too small and dim to live in and moved to their other house of Racedown , a mile up the road . |
| 3 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 4 | There would be even more noise when the navvies moved to their next camp closer to Swinbrook and beside a stream that flowed through the village and on to the river Windrush . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cortex Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co have signed a joint marketing and development pact that will see Cortex' CorVision application development tool , previously available only on VAXes , moved to its first Unix environment HP-UX on an HP 9000 Series 800 server : CorVision will be encapsulated so it runs with HP SoftBench Framework ; availability is expected this year . |
| 8 | The space problem was relieved to some extent when the museum moved to its modern site in the late I820s , but natural history still rubbed shoulders with art and archaeology . |
| 9 | It moved to its present site in 1879 . |
| 10 | Blindcraft moved to its present home in 1972 and in 1975 , the Region took on the role of supervisory authority . |
| 11 | Oh yes , I used to live , we used to live in a three bedroomed semi in before we moved to our present house , and one Christmas Ken said why do n't all our family to us , which was his mother , his father , his elder brother , his wife , two little girls from them , Tony , Karen and their little one |
| 12 | Nicholson 's horses have been in sparkling form this season since he moved to his new yard and Baydon Star was sent off a surprisingly generous 13-8 favourite . |
| 13 | When he moved to his present school , he abandoned individualised learning and lessons fell very much into the mode of ‘ exposition by the teacher , pupils do the exercise ’ . |
| 14 | Gooch moved to his 50 his third in eight days at Old Trafford with his sixth four , off DeFreitas . |
| 15 | Bhutto 's confrontation with rival governments in the provinces , particularly Punjab [ see pp. 36525 ; 37204 ] ; her differences with Muslim fundamentalist parties [ see p. 36525 ] and her uneasy relationship with the President [ see p. 37203 ] , also contributed to her political demise . |
| 16 | But Arnold seems unaware of the strain that Jellett must have borne specifically as a woman artist , and one can not help but wonder if this contributed to her early death . |
| 17 | Revenues generated by this channel did not go through the joint venture , rather through Kam Circuits , which contributed to its good performance . |
| 18 | Yellow man : Kirk Hunter gets the card treatment from referee George Keatley , one of the bookings which contributed to his long early-season suspension . |
| 19 | asked that we relay his heartfelt thanks to all Wood Group personnel who contributed to his successful visit . |
| 20 | Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him . |
| 21 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 22 | My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further . |
| 23 | Thus as the recession of the early 1980s drew to its close ‘ condition of track ’ speed restrictions of some severity were imposed : for example stretches of 35 to 50mph between Selby and Hull on the straightest railway in Britain . |
| 24 | And , as 1915 drew to its close , some overall plan could be formulated . |
| 25 | I am obliged to smell what he smells , the baby powder , the smell of his nails before the fire spits them out-to be caught in the dish and then agonizingly reapplied to his thrilled fingertips . |
| 26 | TYNE AND WEAR : A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 27 | A party of North-East firefighters fly to the Ukraine this week to visit a museum in Kiev dedicated to their foreign counterparts who were killed or injured in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 28 | As Gould described to his Victorian reader , as yet unacquainted with this most common and popular of pets . |
| 29 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 30 | A fireman and his girlfriend are tonight engaged after he proposed to her forty feet off the ground . |