Example sentences of "[adv] [num] he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they expanded their activities into general building work , John Green turning his attention to the architectural side of the business ; but c .1820 he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne , from where he established his extensive professional practice in the area of Northumberland and county Durham . |
| 2 | About 1630 he moved to Stourbridge , living at Stourbridge High Street at the ‘ brickhouse ’ , the later Talbot Hotel . |
| 3 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 4 | In about 1516 he moved to Cambridge , where Erasmus had recently introduced the study of Greek and had asserted the supremacy of the Scriptures , ridiculing the theories of the schoolmen and their fantastic systems of interpretation . |
| 5 | About 1468 he travelled to England and converted to Christianity . |
| 6 | In about 1817 he suggested to Joshua Field [ q.v. ] |
| 7 | About 1839 he went to Manchester and joined Sharp , Roberts & Co. , who already had a high reputation as builders of locomotives and cotton spinning machinery . |
| 8 | Besterman 's advocacy of his causes was ardent rather than diplomatic , and around 1950 he turned to publishing the correspondence and works of Voltaire , a liberal spirit with whom he identified . |
| 9 | Around 1835 he moved to a practice in Cork ; after an extended tour of continental universities , he settled in London in 1838 . |