Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marinello rose to fame on the back of one of Hibernian 's greatest eras . |
| 2 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 3 | Mabbott moved to Dublin during the summer of 1661 , surrendering the office to the Crown in June 1664 for £4,800 . |
| 4 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 5 | Thousands of Huguenots fled to England from the persecution which followed . |
| 6 | Partly as a result , Whitehaven came to prominence in the Virginia tobacco trade during the 1740s , although Lowther had only indirect links with the merchant community . |
| 7 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 8 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 9 | Friedlander came to prominence through the 1966 exhibition Toward a Social Landscape , which also introduced the work of Garry Winogrand and Duane Michals . |
| 10 | Miss Hayes turned to films in the 1930s , winning her first of two Academy Awards for her role in The Sin of Madelon Claudet ( 1931 ) . |
| 11 | In April 1980 , U2 signed to Island in the ladies toilet of the Lyceum . |
| 12 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 13 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 14 | Napoleon wrote to Josephine from the battlefield " Ne te lave pas , je reviens . " |
| 15 | Next day the guns of the Tower fired a victory salute and Sir John Ligonier wrote to Cumberland on the 25th : ‘ This town has been in a blaze these two days . |
| 16 | The climax of Delaunay 's success in Germany came when he was given a large one-man show at the Walden Gallery in Berlin early in 1913 ; both Delaunay and Apollinaire travelled to Germany for the opening . |
| 17 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 18 | Then in 1960 Arthur Andersen came to Japan with the intention of setting up an office and wanting to hire young Japanese CPAs to train in the US before the office was opened . |
| 19 | Martin Fleischmann came to Utah at the turn of the year and , during January in particular , put a lot of effort into the experiments . |
| 20 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 21 | It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) . |
| 22 | Russia and Moldova agreed to talks on the withdrawal of the 14th Army . |
| 23 | More broadly , Mr Reynolds referred to developments in the funding and expansion of cultural institutions under his department and noted the setting up of a new Department of Arts , Culture and the Gaeltacht . |
| 24 | This seems to have appealed to the Federal Commission because Mr Zecar came to Zagreb with the same proposition . |
| 25 | Carl Prean and Alan Cooke , who were beaten only once as England soared to promotion in the European League , suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the men 's doubles at the European Championships in Stuttgart last night . |
| 26 | Labour 's John Aberdeen talked to colleagues at the Scottish Labour Party Conference ; the Conservative candidate , Hampshire barrister Dr Paul McCormick , made an immediate and thorough study of the circumstances surrounding the removal of the children , and Frances McKie for the Scottish National Party was quick to express her horror of the Social Work Department 's actions . |
| 27 | A high-scoring match seemed a certainty when England went to lunch on the opening day with 108 on the board without loss . |
| 28 | Lets face it Gascoigne went to Lazio for the money , Batty went to BR for the money and yes Deane went to Leeds for the money . |
| 29 | Last Friday Geraldine and Alan went to bed after the Golden Girls . |
| 30 | After National Service and a year at Waterers Nurseries , Bagshot , now owned by Notcutts , Mr Dyter went to work for the Woodbridge company . |