Example sentences of "[vb past] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | He and Auntie Lucy moved to a small cottage nearby , but he continued to keep sheep in the fields surrounding our home . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
9 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
10 | They left the house in Chertsey and moved to a quiet cottage in the country , taking Oliver with them . |
11 | Her mother married housing manager John Moluf four years ago and moved to a big house in neighbouring Malta . |
12 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
13 | When she moved to a secretarial college , we wrote daily . |
14 | After a TOPS course I got a full-time job in computing and I moved to a different part of London . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ) . |
17 | ‘ 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 ) . |
20 | Then I moved to a different teacher to get some more , you know , experience . |
21 | On the fourteenth day we moved to a different section of the training building . |
22 | ‘ When Agnes disappeared , ’ replied Monks , ‘ her father changed his name and moved to a lonely place in Wales , where no one would know about the family shame . |
23 | Molly moved to a high window someone had left open , fearing that the baby , to escape its pursuing sisters , might leap out . |
24 | The one person whose placement broke down ( WG ) moved to a large institution and then to a small private home at the last datapoint , where her level of participation shows some decrement . |
25 | First , they moved to a hub-and-spoke system . |
26 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
27 | He moved to an independent helicopter operator in Dubai and had cause to visit Egypt to inspect some Bell 212s for sale . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | When Black moved to the Imperial Chemical Industries Pharmaceutical Laboratories near Manchester he began a 4-year search for suitable compounds . |
30 | After these preliminaries , including some observations about Kensington , conducted before a rather feeble gas-fire , we moved to the low-ceilinged dining-room . |