Example sentences of "[vb past] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 2 | had a farm at and they sold that and moved to that one . |
| 3 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 4 | During the next few weeks Bourke and Blake moved to several different apartments in London owned by friends who Bourke claimed were members of CND and named as Michael Reynolds and Pat Porter . |
| 5 | He had left our school in our final year , when his parents moved to another town . |
| 6 | Perhaps Lord Ashley-Cooper was so horrified that he moved to another property , for there is evidence that the Manor reverted to being a tenanted farmhouse and remained thus until it was sold by the Shaftesburys in 1912 to Colonel Canning . |
| 7 | So we moved to another bar , remarking how times had changed . |
| 8 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 9 | After some time Mr Lisk moved to another part of the country and the services were held in a stable lent by a Mr Gardiner , an innkeeper , and in the house of a Mr Richard Atkinson . |
| 10 | It was interesting to note a complete change in the timbre and resonance when the bird moved to another song-perch . |
| 11 | About three years later we moved to another town . |
| 12 | She was rejected by her family and moved to another town , where she struggled to bring up her son alone and unsupported . |
| 13 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
| 14 | Back once more , Vincent moved to another village , Cuesmes , where he lodged in a house divided in two . |
| 15 | After the wedding he and Margaret and Macnab moved to another flat , in Onslow Gardens , South Kensington , where the two men issued a prospectus and set themselves up as private tutors . |
| 16 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |
| 17 | On 11 April 1988 they moved to another council house , of which the brother also became a secure tenant . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , you ca n't do that here , ’ said the Dormouse crossly , and he got up and moved to another seat . |
| 19 | We moved to another flat and then to a maisonette on the same estate . |
| 20 | After the war she and Gordon moved to another part of London . |
| 21 | When their secondment did come to an end , 22 returned to their former jobs , 7 continued their secondments , 14 moved to another employer and 7 entered entirely new jobs . |
| 22 | But a great man , a potens , in Charles 's kingdom could quit the scene as completely as he had momentarily seemed to dominate it : if he died leaving only young sons , or no sons at all , or if he moved to another Carolingian kingdom , Charles might redistribute his honores as he put it , voluntarie — " in accordance with my will " . |
| 23 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 24 | ‘ I moved to another pad . |
| 25 | But if my mother moved to another house see she could n't afford to refurnish |
| 26 | During late January and early February the Bf110s of III/ZG 26 , Ju87s of I/St.G 1 and Ju88s of II and III/LG 1 and 1(F)/121 , moved to this new area . |
| 27 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 28 | No matter how I tried to explain , he could n't see how the odd fifty pound note or bottle of whisky he spread around contributed to that image . |
| 29 | Erm do you think the fact that you did n't have a job , er contributed to that in any way ? |
| 30 | I enjoyed this day , felt I had done something worthwhile and was grateful for the generosity of my sponsors who contributed to such worthy cause . |