Example sentences of "[verb] to [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah I would , I 've got to write to Dot tomorrow |
| 2 | Mathematics competitions in the UK have traditionally been elitist affairs designed to single out a few extraordinary individuals and effectively to exclude the rest . |
| 3 | This Act was designed to reduce the general subsidy to council tenants ; it was linked to changes in the system of national subsidies to local authorities designed to phase out indiscriminate help of this kind in due course . |
| 4 | ‘ And I know they moved to Brighton together . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her father Thomas , a Dalton-in-Furness man aged 44 , after marrying a Millom girl ( also Sarah ) , moved to Ulverston where he worked in the capacity of general labourer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He moved to London where he worked as a gardener with the Greater London Council and became editor of the Irish Militant . |
| 10 | He moved to London where , with the backing of Sir Joseph Banks [ q.v. ] and the support of many influential physicians and members of Parliament , a bill for medical reform was drawn up . |
| 11 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 12 | He moved to London in about 1833 . |
| 13 | First establishing himself at Sockbridge Hall , Lowther moved to London permanently in 1663 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The other older one had been in Chicago , moved to Washington less than a year back , and Erlich knew his name because he 'd the distinction of having run the sting in the Board of Trade 's soybean futures pit . |
| 16 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 17 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 18 | Marin won the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1801 and then moved to Rome where he stayed at the Villa Medici for ten years and taught at the Accademia di San Luca . |
| 19 | Averaging the observations in each condition , the group that moved to houses almost doubled their level of participation in meaningful activity , from 16 to 28 per cent . |
| 20 | Eventually we moved to Dorset where my father taught at the local grammar school . |
| 21 | Leese , however , was unhappy with Stamford , realising it was a ‘ poor base from which to run a national revolution ’ , and in 1927 he moved to Guildford where he formed the Imperial Fascist League . |
| 22 | In 1906 she moved to Krugersdorp where she ran the Swan Hotel and , according to Herbert , achieved prosperity . |
| 23 | Principal speaker at the lunch was Dr Elizabeth Laws who was born in Horden and moved to Middlesbrough where her parents ran a newsagents ‘ I 've sold plenty of Northern Echoes in my time , ’ she says . |
| 24 | Her initial training was in printmaking and her interest in social welfare in 1891 she moved to Berlin where her husband was a doctor in a poor area of the city combined in her great early cycle of six prints ‘ A Weaver 's Rebellion ’ ( completed 1898 ) . |
| 25 | After J. S. Bach 's death in 1750 , Johann Christian moved to Berlin where his half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel assumed responsibility for his welfare and education . |
| 26 | From there they moved to Whitby where Mrs Chance became secretary to the entertainments manager and Mr Chance became civil defence officer . |
| 27 | He played soccer for Middlesbrough in the immediate post-war years and , in 1950 , moved to Portsmouth where he played professionally until 1958 , after which he drifted away from the club never to contact Portsmouth again ( W. J. B. Davis , Portsmouth FC Secretary , personal communication , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | It was his great-grandson — the first Henry Overton Wills — who moved to Bristol where by 1786 he had become a partner in a tobacco business . |
| 29 | There was further antagonism when she failed to get into Leeds Polytechnic but wanted to be with Gedge so much that she still moved to Leeds anyway . |
| 30 | Ann McAllister Olivarius in December 1989 moved to Virginia where her husband Jef McAllister is working for Time Magazine as its State Department correspondent ; she herself works as a lawyer for Perot Systems Corporation . |