Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kurt Steiner stood , turned and moved to the door without a word . |
| 2 | She collected her coat and moved to the door with Glyn . |
| 3 | She moved to the door with her suitcase , opened the door , laughing . |
| 4 | I moved to the door of the bar , stepping lightly , warily . |
| 5 | Rangers boss Walter Smith admitted he has had Gordon in mind since Trevor Steven moved to the centre of the midfield at the start of the season . |
| 6 | She moved to the centre of the ring . |
| 7 | As regards external mediation efforts , the European Community ( EC ) moved to the imposition of sanctions on Yugoslavia , while at the UN there was increasingly urgent consideration of a mission by peacekeeping forces . |
| 8 | She moved to the phone on the wall and called the switchboard , asking them to page the physician , and then turned back to their patient . |
| 9 | From there , by natural progression , Jinny moved to the memory of herself , crying into Keith 's comfortable jumper . |
| 10 | Leonora , depressed rather than frightened , moved to the shelter of his arms for the remainder of the journey . |
| 11 | You moved to the music in a way that the show demanded . |
| 12 | Seymour Mullings , hitherto Minister of Finance , became Minister of Agriculture , replacing Horace Clarke , who moved to the Ministry of Mining and Energy , hitherto held by Hugh Small , who was moved to the newly organized Ministry of Industry and Commerce . |
| 13 | I moved to the back of my trench as Taff stood up to man the gun . |
| 14 | There was only one on duty today and I waited till he turned and moved to the back of the room then I walked quietly past him and out into the square . |
| 15 | She started up the engine and fumbled with the gears while he moved to the back of the vehicle and hauled out her overnight bag . |
| 16 | She moved to the foot of the stairs . |
| 17 | Hugh , who had been reading about the dangers of having a smoker as a cohabitee , waved his handkerchief through the air and moved to the edge of the terrace . |
| 18 | Leicester 19pts Northampton 22 NORTHAMPTON , boosted by 14 points from outside-half John Steele , moved to the top of Courage League One last night after the narrowest of victories in a splendid contest at Welford Road . |
| 19 | It put him five shots behind South Shields ' Jimmy Dryden , who chased him all the way last season in the Northern Masters , but when Dryden crumbled to an 81 , McLure moved to the top of the leader board by covering the open seven holes in level par in his second round and played superb golf to finish with a 72 . |
| 20 | Brannen moved to the top of the UK rankings for 1991 with 7,656 points and earned selection for the World Championships in Tokyo . |
| 21 | After Nairobi we moved to the south of Kenya to Mombasa on the coast , a predominantly Muslim area . |
| 22 | Then he moved to the South of France and now he has moved on elsewhere . |
| 23 | Washoe , in 1970 , moved to the University of Oklahoma with Roger Fouts , a research assistant of the Gardners . |
| 24 | When Liebig moved to the University of Munich in 1852 Muspratt followed him to study medicine . |
| 25 | In nineteen sixty five , which was rather after I came here , he moved to the University of Sussex , where he became the first Dean of the new School of Biological Sciences , and that was the beginning of a very distinguished contribution to scientific work in this university . |
| 26 | The next day the Rivers family returned to their separate places of work , and I moved to the cottage in Morton . |
| 27 | Kay , from London , moved to the resort with her parents Sean , a carpenter , and Elaine . |
| 28 | Her mother suggested that Sophia marry the exiled Charles II , but he was not interested , and , her pride hurt , in 1650 she moved to the court of her eldest brother Karl Ludwig , now restored to Heidelberg . |
| 29 | In 1938 he moved to the School of Oriental & African Studies in the same university and in 1944 he was appointed to the Chair of Linguistics , the first chair of that title in the UK . |
| 30 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |