Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A hot-tempered individual , he early on fought a duel and beat to death an Indian accused of murder .
2 In 1863 he led a tour to Paris and Switzerland ; in 1864 he ventured to Italy with parties of tourists .
3 Mr Turner his wife and three daughters aged eight , six and four moved to France in April and his auberge opened in July .
4 He then moved to France to join John Fellows , ‘ winning ’ the Ascot Gold Cup in a canter only to have the race taken away from him when jockey Cash Asmussen was found guilty of careless riding .
5 Yes he moved to France .
6 ‘ And I know they moved to Brighton together .
7 Life has perked up a bit since The Grange was sold and we moved to Brighton .
8 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 .
9 Our two children , Virginia and Peter were born during the war and after Franklin was demobbed in 1946 we moved to Peterborough where he works for an engineering company .
10 He was an elder of the assembly in Raleigh Street , Plymouth , until 1840 , and when the church moved to Ebrington Street he was an elder there until 1847 .
11 Lyn Haughey gave up her job as a secretary in Tring , Hertfordshire , when she moved to Cornwall six months ago with her fiance Robert Brown , a retired policeman and accomplished chef .
12 For a week or so after we moved to Cornwall , I was free to have a great time exploring my new habitat .
13 When I moved to Cornwall to live with them first , their home was a bracing , windswept ( take your pick ! ) clifftop cottage at Widemouth Bay , three miles from Bude on the North Cornish coast .
14 Strood area bid a sad farewell to Janet McGowan when she moved to Cornwall .
15 and of course her mum moved to Cornwall and Deborah bought the house of off her , a bit cheaper than they would have bought on the they moved down to Cornwall and they bought a much smaller house , much , much smaller .
16 Meanwhile , Elton is suing the American TV show Hard Copy for slander , alleging that a Hard Copy reporter claimed he moved to Atlanta to be near an AIDS treatment centre .
17 They married in England in March 1977 but moved to Ontario in Canada in 1981 , and both became Canadian citizens .
18 He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader .
19 Originally from Birmingham , he developed a love affair with the Scottish mountains and moved to Edinburgh in 1961 .
20 He moved to Edinburgh , and studied to become an artist .
21 With her literary earnings she paid for the education of a young sister , who became her amanuensis and moved to Edinburgh with her in 1847 .
22 They have two young children and moved to Edinburgh after Mr Rea experienced difficulty in finding work in Sheffield .
23 After studying in Vienna with Hummel and with Simon Sechter ( whose other pupils included Schubert , in the last days of his life , and Bruckner , half-way through his ) , Thalberg 's career as one of the leading virtuosi of his days was already well established by the time he moved to Paris .
24 ‘ In the '70s , I moved to Paris , France .
25 She had loved to go to the music-hall when first she moved to Paris and she had made friends in the quartier .
26 He still longed to be a painter though , and in the summer of 1939 he moved to Paris , where he intended to settle and paint .
27 And she helped again later when we moved to Paris .
28 In the early 1970s Brooke-Rose described the different ‘ houses of theory ’ she encountered when she moved to Paris in 1968 :
29 He took a share in a bookshop and publishing business , but the firm 's radical pamphlets may have incurred official displeasure and Reuter moved to Paris in 1848 .
30 In late 1853 he moved to Paris , where he was engaged on bridges and embankments of the Seine , and on railways in and around the city .
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