Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greenlys moved to Clevedon for some time , in which district he made valuable contributions to Pre-Cambrian , Palaeozoic , and Quaternary geology . |
| 2 | He moved to Swansea for £160,000 before finishing his career as a coach at Sunderland . |
| 3 | The match was agreed when Mowbray moved to Scotland for £1m last November . |
| 4 | Transferred to Rotherham , where he still lives with his wife and two young sons , he moved to Everton for £150,000 in 1985 understudy to the enduring Southall . |
| 5 | After completing an apprenticeship under his father in maintenance , moved to Newark for two years before returning to Barton-on-Humber . |
| 6 | He moved to Birmingham for his early clinical experience and to research on aspects of hypertension in diabetes which formed his MD thesis . |
| 7 | In April 1943 they moved to Poland for training and in September 1943 were sent to Yugoslavia as part of Gen Loehr 's Army Group E to fight Tito partisans . |
| 8 | Following this incident Richard Baxter took his friends ' advice and moved to Gloucester for his own safety . |
| 9 | As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million . |
| 10 | Then he moved to Bordeaux for the winter , before returning to Orléans and Paris . |
| 11 | So we moved to Haddenham for peace and quiet but now it starts here and we 're very frightened we shall be driven away from here because you ca n't live with that noise . |
| 12 | The Anglo.American Cataloguing Rules , prepared jointly by the Library Association , the American Library Association , the Canadian Library Association and the Library of Congress , were published in 1967 with some sixty-six pages devoted to rules for non-book materials , and dissatisfaction with these rules produced further publications from the Canadian Library Association ( Riddle 1970 ; Weihs , Lewis and Macdonald 1973 ) , the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction of the National Education Association ( 1968 ) , and the very impressive LA/NCET rules issued by the Library Association and the ( then ) National Council for Educational Technology ( 1973 ) . |
| 13 | The most likely development is that studios will imitate the music business and create separate divisions devoted to films for black audiences , where black producers who know their market best will determine what films are made . |
| 14 | Revenues rose to $91m. for 1988 ( Business Week figures ) , with 181 consultants handling 2000 searches . |
| 15 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 16 | The early 1330s , therefore , saw the renewal of English involvement in Scotland and in 1334 David II and his wife fled to France for asylum , a development which in its turn seriously complicated England 's relations with France . |
| 17 | This led to another form of coaching , I just can not remember how my interest in tennis arose , save that I used to practice for hours against an airman 's table top fixed to the netting of an old tennis court . |
| 18 | Nelson 's reason for running Houston was wanting to run 2:12 as he tried to quality for Canada 's World Championships team . |
| 19 | As he imposed his geometrical grid of drainage ditches across the newly filled-in estuary of the Traeth , it occurred to Madocks for a brief , but anxious , moment that the whole project resembled ‘ Dutch gardening ’ ; but in no time the poet Shelley arrived to help him with his endeavours , declaiming on the ‘ poetry of engineering ’ . |
| 20 | In 1553 Northumberland appealed to Parliament for a peacetime grant of two fifteenths and tenths and a subsidy of 2s. in the pound on landed incomes , 1s. 4d. in the pound on personal property over £2O . |
| 21 | When a large Turkish force invested the castle at Klis in 1536 , Kružić appealed to Ferdinand for help , but the Emperor 's attention was diverted by a Turkish invasion into Slavonia and he was unable to prevent the surrender of the garrison . |
| 22 | In the relative quiet that followed Harbury appealed to Rain for information about Wickham , ignoring that she 'd had no success over Pascoe . |
| 23 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 24 | As the proposed grant for 93–94 from Christian Aid was so large , at £50,000 , the Committee was asked to consider the proposal in advance , and give some now indication of whether it would support the request when it came to committee for approval next year . |
| 25 | ‘ Last year you came to Venice for a holiday , and somehow you met my father . |
| 26 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 27 | In February 1988 the mother came to England for a holiday with the children . |
| 28 | It was in the spring of 1956 that Elizabeth came to Greece for the first time , on a cruise . |
| 29 | I smile and drink my champagne , remembering when Andy came to Stirling for Yvonne and William 's party , five years ago . |
| 30 | In May she came to Oxford for her D. Phil viva . |