Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun sg] " 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 | The role of the UN would be to supervise elections , if possible throughout Korea but if not in south Korea alone , and to afford some measure of protection to the infant state as it moved to independence . |
| 3 | Quinn 's predatory skills outshone the player who cost 10 times more , Dean Saunders , who enjoyed the same sort of start when he moved to Villa from Liverpool . |
| 4 | On this marriage the Dalisons moved to West Peckham , although retaining all their property here at Halling . |
| 5 | Following Alfa 's declining interest in Grand Prix racing Nuvolari moved to Auto Union during the 1938 season and gave them victories in the Italian and British Grands Prix . |
| 6 | Since he moved to Man . |
| 7 | The case , however , moved to trial only after Mr Garcia himself proposed the use of military courts against guerrilla suspects , because of their alleged greater efficiency . |
| 8 | He sat as a Unionist councillor and , when the Unionist Party became dominated by powersharers , he moved to Vanguard , then to Baird 's United Ulster Unionist Party , and only switched to Paisley 's Democratic Unionist Party after the demise of the UUUP . |
| 9 | The passing parade of international players means that even with the loss of McGahan , North Harbour can still call on three international halfbacks : Strachan , Matthew Vaea and Tu Nu'auli'itia — the latter two Western Samoan World Cup halfbacks who moved to North Harbour clubs last winter . |
| 10 | After being on external display at Lasham , Hants , for twenty years , Dakota G–AMPP has been purchased by Mike Woodley and is being dismantled and moved to North Weald , where , due to its poor condition , it will be examined to see if a restoration programme is viable . |
| 11 | A hot food trader in the market square , who only moved to North Ormesby two days ago , said : ‘ People told me not to move here . |
| 12 | He then moved to University where he spent eight years in research and development in Artificial Intelligence and particularly Expert Systems . |
| 13 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 14 | So having settled on Road , moved to Lane which was the nearest school , still in the juniors but by then our age would be nearly eleven , time to move onto a bigger school . |
| 15 | And the 25-year-old defender , who moved to Boundary Park along with Neil Pointon in the deal that took Rick Holden to Maine Road admitted : ‘ I grew up with Manchester City but in the end I hated getting out of bed in the morning to go to work . ’ |
| 16 | Somebody moved to primary , another to community work . |
| 17 | It was n't just the old and the rich who moved to Moon Beach . |
| 18 | Milner moved to Oak Lodge , Norwood , and later to Hillside , Dulwich Wood Park . |
| 19 | Mrs Mabel Rotherham ( Mabel Stevens ) moved to Ferry House in 1898 when she was 9 months old . |
| 20 | Dick Cracknell moved to left-half and Hamilton came in at centre-half for a the stern test against the 1st Division side . |
| 21 | Later that day Chamlong and hundreds of his supporters were arrested and moved to army camps . |
| 22 | He moved to Lotus the following season and enjoyed his first win at Estoril . |
| 23 | In the early 1960s Anderson moved to East Africa as Staff Development Advise to President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania ( 1961-64 ) . |
| 24 | Ali Hassan Diria was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs , exchanging portfolios with Benjamin Mkapa , who thus moved to Information and Broadcasting . |
| 25 | She moved to area in 1975 , and her first job was at a primary school in Middlesbrough where she taught music . |
| 26 | Jim showed me around for awhile and we became friends until he moved to news work in Toronto within the year . |
| 27 | Secretary for Mobilization and Social Welfare Huudu Yahaya moved to Trade and Tourism , to be replaced by his former deputy , D. S. Boateng . |
| 28 | ‘ Only stupid people , ’ said Lydia , moved to annoyance by Elizabeth 's woebegone demeanour . |
| 29 | Versatile tight forward who began as a prop but moved to hooker when Uli Schmidt pulled out of the tour . |
| 30 | Transition probabilities p(1) to p(4) in Table 6.2 are calculated by counting the number of times the business executive stayed in city a and subsequently ( i ) stayed the next day in city a , ( ii ) moved to city b , ( iii ) moved to city c , ( iv ) moved to city d . |