Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] england " in BNC.

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1 Is n't anything planned for England ?
2 Shortly after this fight , my father was reinstated amateur and , as an amateur , he fought for England against Germany in 1937 at the Albert Hall , beating Otto Kastner , the Olympic champion and Golden Gloves winner .
3 Led by Humphrey Arundell , a mob gathered in Bodmin and , after a sortie to take St. Michael 's Mount , headed for England .
4 Mark Robins bamboozled two defenders to whip in a cross which make-shift striker Rob Newman headed past England keeper Chris Woods .
5 In June 1900 the air over Antwerp ‘ appeared black ’ with swarms of four-spotted chaser dragonflies , as they headed towards England .
6 Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy .
7 ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them !
8 He has struggled all season with the only American-built car in the sport while others have used Lolas , Galmers and Penskes built in England .
9 He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up .
10 These have been postponed by successive governments and only three occurred in England and Wales between the end of the Second World War and the abolition of domestic rates in 1990 .
11 A study of all births that occurred in England and Wales in the course of 1949–1950 investigated , among other things , the association between parity and infant mortality controlled for maternal age and social class .
12 Zulfikar Ghoe , born in what became Pakistan , moved to England as a teenager , married a Brazilian , and now lives in Texas .
13 Also at ‘ Wallop is the original Hafner R-II — BAPC.10 — which was used by Raoul Hafner to perfect his rotorcraft ideas in Austria , he brought this pioneering machine with him when he moved to England . )
14 If anyone was a source of embarrassment to the BBBC because of this rule , it was Larry Gains who was born in Toronto in 1900 and moved to England rather late in his boxing career when 30 years old .
15 He is Australian by birth but moved to England in 1975 .
16 In 1959 he moved to England to become professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester .
17 In 1868 the Sickerts moved to England and settled first in Bedford , and then in Notting Hill , where they were part of an artistic and literary circle that included the families of William Morris and ( Sir ) Edward Burne-Jones , and later Oscar Wilde [ qq.v . ]
18 It was inevitable when he moved to England he would join them .
19 He joined them when he first moved to England in 1991 to contest the Vauxhall junior championship , a series he led for much of the season .
20 American naive paintings , she herself had never considered taking up painting until shortly after she moved to England in 1955 to get married .
21 Steve Farrell , chief engineer at Prodrive in Banbury moved to England from Australia eleven years ago and with a history of skin cancer in his family was always on the watch for it .
22 A GREAT deal was expected of Jonny Kane when he moved to England earlier this year to join the Swift team in the British Formula Ford championship .
23 Actors and dancers came to Alexander for advice ; he became a therapist and in 1900 moved to England to set up a practice in London .
24 Like many other mills connected with the woollen industry , their history is inextricably linked with that of the families of Flemish weavers who , following religious persecution , fled to England during the 15th and 16th centuries .
25 Poyntz after several months escaped from jail and fled to England .
26 Thousands of Huguenots fled to England from the persecution which followed .
27 At the end of April Duke John , left with only a handful of fortresses , fled to England .
28 I fled to England .
29 Two years later , following a fierce argument with her father , she fled to England and married Beaumont in London .
30 The owners are French aristocrats who fled to England .
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