Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] in the early " in BNC.
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1 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
2 | Five nightclub customers were being quizzed by police yesterday after a man was stabbed to death in the early morning . |
3 | From the moment the family moved to Frome in the early 17th century and gave up being subsistence farmers with a complementary craft skill or two under their belts , they had been involved in one way or another with the world of industry — be it as manufacturing craftsmen or as retailers . |
4 | They came to Anoch in the early afternoon , having to break their journey early , because the opportunities for food and lodging were not evenly distributed between Fort Augustus and Glenelg : Johnson says , ‘ the only house , where we could be entertained , was not further off than a third of the way ’ . |
5 | He came to prominence in the early 50s and has become the best-known member of the ‘ kitchen sink school ’ of realist painters . |
6 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
7 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
8 | This effort , as far as the administrative machinery was concerned , was initiated by the French advisers who came to Spain in the early years of the century with the first Bourbon king , Philip V ; later it was encouraged by Choiseul , who saw in the effective mobilization of the resources of his ally the means to defeat England and lay the foundations of a Franco-Spanish world power . |
9 | All that idleness ; eating too much ; drinking too much ; going to bed in the early hours of the morning . |
10 | Obliquely flattering his readers by introducing them to boys near their own age involved in surprising and exciting events , he also invited them to wishful thinking , if not to identification , by emphasising the youth of his heroes and underplaying the responsibility and enforced maturity belonging to midshipmen in the early and mid-teens in reality . |
11 | Although he was operating under another name , rumours of his past caught up with him , and he escaped to America in the early 1880s . |
12 | Certainly it was more localized ( by town ) than its counterpart in England , and the relative autonomy of local unions may have contributed to weaknesses in the early days . |
13 | By consistent selection , based on a group of red Colling-bred Shorthorns brought to Lincolnshire in the early nineteenth century , the breed 's characteristic colour and qualities became fixed . |
14 | In this case , however , a clue has been given to declarer in the earlier bidding . |
15 | From there , five companies , each of 300 men , went to France in the early months of 1940 . |
16 | You knew everyone who went to work in the early morning — the chappie who came round on his bike and rod to put out the gas lamps or to light them . |
17 | She described again and again how they went to India in the early 1920s and returned in the Depression , his work as an electrician in the mines , poverty , living in digs with the old soldier who polished the shoes and got my brother to put the finishing kaybosh on them . |
18 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
19 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
20 | He had fled to England in the early 70s and worked as a miner but later returned to the province through ill health . |
21 | The man behind the project is popstar Fish who shot to fame in the early 1980s as lead singer of the group Marillion . |