Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
| 2 | Then he moved to the exclusive St James Club as restaurant manager , serving the likes of Lionel Ritchie , Duran Duran , Elizabeth Taylor , Robert Wagner and Jean-Claude van Damme , of Kickboxer film fame . |
| 3 | When Black moved to the Imperial Chemical Industries Pharmaceutical Laboratories near Manchester he began a 4-year search for suitable compounds . |
| 4 | Those companies were acquired by the Wedgwood Group in 1972 and Roy was transferred to Johnson Brothers , firstly in quality control at the Hanley factory , later on yield improvement at Alexandra and then he moved to the Imperial factory . |
| 5 | After these preliminaries , including some observations about Kensington , conducted before a rather feeble gas-fire , we moved to the low-ceilinged dining-room . |
| 6 | In 1875 he moved to the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland as the works manager and assistant locomotive superintendent at Inchicore near Dublin , where he was responsible for making improvements to the automatic vacuum brake . |
| 7 | He moved to the small table , put down his glass and searched in his pockets for his cigarettes . |
| 8 | I moved to the leaded window , looked out . |
| 9 | Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son , Stefan . |
| 10 | Begun in 1960 , in 1984 the fair moved to the ample space of the Fiera which is better equipped to deal with the growing number of visitors and exhibitors . |
| 11 | In 1948 he moved to the ancient house of Daneway , near Sapperton , where he ground his own flour , baked his own bread and made his own paper on which to print his poems on his own press . |
| 12 | Pigeons used to the northern hemisphere but moved to the southern hemisphere likewise orient with the predicted 180° error at noon . |
| 13 | They moved to the Caribbean in 1984 after Mr Clarke 's mother left him a small banana plantation in her will . |
| 14 | In about 1228 Henry moved to the papal court , where he wrote occasional verse for patrons from all over western Europe . |
| 15 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 17 | In 1977 , he moved to the Canadian Colour and Print operation , Blythe Matthey , and was active in the Canadian Ceramic society for many years as the pottery and whitwares secretary and chairman and also membership chairman . |
| 18 | He matriculated at Wadham College , Oxford , in 1667 , moved to the Inner Temple in 1670 , and was called to the bar in 1673 . |
| 19 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 20 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 21 | Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out . |
| 22 | Their search was fruitless so they moved to the other bed post . |
| 23 | Then , realising she was still clinging to his arm , she snatched her hand away and moved to the other side of the path . |
| 24 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 25 | Pearce Print was set up in the centre of Northampton in 1979 and moved to the new Moulton Park Industrial Estate until changing its location to Kettering in 1991 . |
| 26 | As the title implies it originally took place on Whit Monday , but when this ceased to be a Bank Holiday it moved to the new Bank Holiday . |
| 27 | The principal beneficiaries were those who moved to the new houses built in the postwar housing drives , which ( with a few exceptions in remote rural areas ) all had electricity as a basic service . |
| 28 | When we moved to the new building we were promised vastly improved facilities , not a canteen but a carpeted restaurant , with special facilities for conferences and for private business lunches . |
| 29 | It moved to the then co-ordinator of security and intelligence in the Cabinet Office , Sir Antony Duff , who was given the right of direct access to Mrs Thatcher and encouraged to override the JIC 's supporting machinery and voice his concerns at the highest level when a potential emergency was sensed . |
| 30 | Ian always wanted to work in industry , and in April 1986 , he moved to the Legal Department of British Coal [ then still known as the National Coal Board ] , specialising first in property work in the Gateshead office , and the following year joining a team of commercial solicitors based in Doncaster . |