Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
2 | Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oögenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon . |
3 | After 27 years at Sywell Airport , the Barnstormers Flying Circus have packed their tent and moved to a new home at Spanhoe Airfield , near RAF Wittering in the north of Northamptonshire . |
4 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
5 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
6 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
7 | As Hatch moved to a small drinks trolley , well stocked with spirits , Cowley took a last , lingering look at the photograph of Patrick Weaver , father of the dead bride . |
8 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
9 | In 1977 the Durlia moved to a lavish new building in Commercial Street , but rent and rates proved too expensive . |
10 | But when she married and moved to a distant part of the country , I decided it was the moment for me to change my life too . |
11 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
12 | London , with its highly compact districts , took the lead in this , and moved to a two-tier rather than three-tier organisation . |
13 | He started buying expensive clothes , a car ; he moved to a better flat … |
14 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
15 | They left the house in Chertsey and moved to a quiet cottage in the country , taking Oliver with them . |
16 | That afternoon I moved to a quiet little hotel on Fifth Avenue . |
17 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
18 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
19 | Later she moved to a proper — and vast — gallery on West Broadway . |
20 | I moved to a yellow and tartan design . |
21 | When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily . |
22 | I moved to a different phase and involved myself in witch-like pursuits , looking for a special spell ( they had already told me what it was to be ) . |
23 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
24 | In King Ine 's laws the smith was rated as the equal of the reeve and a child 's nurse , who , being servants , could be taken with a gesithcund man if he moved to a different area ( ibid. p. 104 ) . |
25 | With the scratch foil system , the styli and the arms they are mounted on have a definable mass which must be accelerated , moved to a different position and then decelerated to the new value every time there is a change in the magnitude of the parameter . |
26 | The external version of the theory holds that the ‘ market value ’ of top managers ( which takes account of the salary they could command if they moved to a different employer ) will increase where they are associated with a successful company and therefore that directors will do all they can to boost profitability . |
27 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
28 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
29 | ‘ I do know in one particular instance of a gay couple from Clwyd who moved to a different area and changed their names because one of the men became infected . |
30 | before they actually suggest to somebody that they sell a house , that they sell a house and moved to a smaller one , they have to be unemployed for quite some time . |