Example sentences of "[vb past] to [det] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | After the war she and Gordon moved to another part of London . |
| 4 | She moved to another part of the studio and started to turn over a number of stretched canvases , all of them blank . |
| 5 | ‘ I moved to another pad . |
| 6 | On 11 April 1988 they moved to another council house , of which the brother also became a secure tenant . |
| 7 | Back once more , Vincent moved to another village , Cuesmes , where he lodged in a house divided in two . |
| 8 | After they had eaten and sunbathed a little , they cleared everything away and moved to another hedge to pick more berries . |
| 9 | So we moved to another bar , remarking how times had changed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But if my mother moved to another house see she could n't afford to refurnish |
| 12 | The man eyed Doyle contemptuously then muttered something to himself and moved to another table and sat down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had left our school in our final year , when his parents moved to another town . |
| 15 | About three years later we moved to another town . |
| 16 | She was rejected by her family and moved to another town , where she struggled to bring up her son alone and unsupported . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you ca n't do that here , ’ said the Dormouse crossly , and he got up and moved to another seat . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We moved to another flat and then to a maisonette on the same estate . |
| 20 | I 'm trying to trace a member of our family who moved to this part of London during the war , looking for work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He contributed to many newspapers and magazines , one of them the Weekly Dispatch , in whose pages he was in 1885–6 an early advocate of the formation of an independent Labour party . |
| 23 | In 1340 he was assessed to pay £10 towards the loan of £5,000 made to the king by the city of London ; and he contributed to another loan in 1346 . |
| 24 | ‘ Lower inflation and interest rates also contributed to this year 's increase in profit . |
| 25 | I would like to thank staff at all levels for their tremendous efforts which contributed to this success . |
| 26 | What were the factors that contributed to this disintegration — was it ‘ law ’ or did other factors play a role ? |
| 27 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 28 | Basil Rocke contributed to this show several drawings which were remarkable for their sensitivity . |
| 29 | Finally many thanks are due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |
| 30 | Finally very many thanks are again due to everyone who contributed to this edition . |