Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was inevitable when he moved to England he would join them . |
| 2 | When we moved to Scotland I discovered the greatest delicacy of all — the smoked herring , or kipper . |
| 3 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |
| 4 | When I first moved to Wallingford I was told by a local resident ( in no uncertain terms ) what would happen to me if did n't continue with the tradition of putting a Christmas Tree on the silo top . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We achieved good wins in and around Montreal and when we moved to Ottawa our lead had increased to 150 shots . |
| 7 | I developed so much skill that I could put together a 50 or 60 break and when I moved to York I played for the local Conservative club and reached the final of the York and District competition . |
| 8 | When he moved to Belfast he joined the DUP and campaigned for McQuade , and he became an elder of the John Knox Memorial Free Presbyterian Church in North Belfast . |
| 9 | Then when we moved to Brisbane he bought a hardware shop . ’ |
| 10 | He never pretended to feelings he did n't have and if he thought she 'd made a fool of herself he 'd say so , but never to do her down , never to boost himself at her expense . |
| 11 | Luigi pretended to cuff him across the ear . |
| 12 | The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously . |
| 13 | ‘ My guess is they came for some of Connie Fraser 's clothes , found the place upside down and me on the floor , then when they reported to Bonanza he told 'em to forget about the clothes . ’ |
| 14 | While serving as ambassador at the court of St James Sancy 's brother sold the stone to James I. When James II fled to France he took refuge at St Germain and sold the stone to Louis XIV . |
| 15 | When Jeremiah fled to Egypt he went to Tahpanhes ( 43.7 ; 44.1 ) which was known to the Greek world under the name of Daphne and was probably already garrisoned by Greek mercenaries , as it certainly was a little later under King Amasis ( 570–526 ) . |
| 16 | The Major said , ‘ You mentioned to Harrison you had someone investigate into Kinsella 's past . |
| 17 | Mme Guérigny shouted to Jean-Claude who , for one reason or another , had found it preferable to escape into the bathroom and shut the door . |
| 18 | Daring words those , for in the prophet Malachi they clearly referred to Yahweh himself . |
| 19 | Republicans who used to back it because the president liked it will no longer feel constrained to do so . |
| 20 | ‘ I used to dye it when it first went grey , ’ she said . |
| 21 | He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks . |
| 22 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
| 23 | HOWARD CLARK used to gorge himself on golf titles . |
| 24 | The agent tried to swindle him out of his deposit and Marc 's trying to sort it out . |
| 25 | She tried to elbow her way closer to the front . |
| 26 | WORLD champion boxer Chris Eubank fought off Big Breakfast show presenter Paula Yates , above , when she tried to bed him for an interview on screen yesterday . |
| 27 | A pause , in which she tried to feet what Rose was struggling to say . |
| 28 | He tried to discipline me . |
| 29 | ‘ I can tell you this much : someone tried to garotte you and almost succeeded . ’ |
| 30 | It 's got a steel bolt with two steel rollers in there , so that if , even somebody tried to hacksaw their way through that it will just slide along as soon as . |