Example sentences of "[vb past] to the [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 3 | We referred to the 1992 NOP survey which indicated that 13,000,000 people wished to relocate to a rural area , and that this created a powerful demand which would be difficult to satisfy even if the provision of housing was completely unconstrained . |
| 4 | ‘ The Dallae ’ referred to the identical Dallas twins who were consulted as the oracles of the Decoding Room School . |
| 5 | The Bosnian Serbs objected to the original Vance-Owen plan for four reasons . |
| 6 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 7 | CNN appealed to the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta , on Nov. 9 , but the court upheld Hoeveler 's injunction on the following day . |
| 8 | The dancers all showed a great joy in their work as they danced to the rousing Tchaikovsky score and special mention must go to lead dancers Victoria Westall and Antony Harith . |
| 9 | ‘ What happened to the real Louise Müller ? ’ |
| 10 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 11 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 12 | If victory was eked out at the back , the inspiration belonged to the evergreen Charlie Nicholas . |
| 13 | The Pontormo , a Mannerist masterpiece painted in 1537 , belonged to the late Chauncey Stillman and had long been on loan to the Frick collection in New York . |
| 14 | The collection belonged to the late George Reynolds , who lived at Chalford Mill . |
| 15 | That was when Sharpe bothered to show himself at the Prince 's headquarters at all ; he evidently preferred to spend his days riding the French frontier which was a job that properly belonged to the pompous General Dornberg , which thought reminded the Prince that Dornberg 's noon report should have arrived . |
| 16 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 17 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 18 | An important phase in this was achieved in the diplomatic efforts initiated by the Red Cross Resolution of 1965 which eventually led to the 1977 Geneva Protocols , discussed in the previous section . |
| 19 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 20 | South Africa got to the extended West Indies tail , starting with wicket-keeper David Williams at number seven , just after tea and encountered little resistance after that . |
| 21 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 22 | She says ; We went to the first Sands meeting . |
| 23 | Following a spell in Romford he went to the new Walton Heath course in 1904 where he stayed until his death in 1950 , aged 80 . |
| 24 | Mr Brown said : ‘ I went to the old Puddydale school in Heswall and remember rows of desks and bare walls . |
| 25 | The trophy for the cow achieving the highest butter fat and protein records over three years went to the British Holstein Castledon Donfloss 4 , belonging to Norman Gotts , of Wickford , Essex . |
| 26 | The Guardian 's own Milestones Award for long-term creative commitment to the music went to the veteran George Russell , whose greeting from the crowd was as affectionate as it should have been and a services-to-jazz prize sponsored jointly by Wire and Carlsberg/Elephant lager went to John Surman , one of the most gifted members of that talented and ill-rewarded generation of musicians that came between Stan Tracey 's and the new young heroes . |
| 27 | He went to the infamous Son-La forced-labour camp in the jungle on the Thai border where hard-core Communists were able to indoctrinate their fellow convicts . |
| 28 | As a result the Company lost its monopoly ; after 1697 all English merchants could trade with West Africa , though they were supposed to pay a tax of 10 per cent of the value of goods exported from England , the proceeds of which went to the Royal Africa Company to enable it to keep up its forts on the West African coast . |
| 29 | With the lightweight Kevins , Sheedy and Brock , to carry in midfield and the dubious luxury of Franz Carr disappearing up blind alleys of his own making out on the wing ( without much of a prayer , unfortunately ) , the burden of battling for central control fell to the overworked Liam O'Brien . |
| 30 | He quickly crossed to the peak-time Burke Report , and from there landed a plum assistant producer 's job on the pop-science flagship Tomorrow 's World . |