Example sentences of "[vb past] to [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The business was set up in one upstairs room in premises on High Row and moved to Priestgate in the early 1900s where it still practises , on a much larger scale , with a staff of more than 50 . |
| 2 | She moved to London after the break-up of her marriage and became a prison visitor some time after Teamwork Associates was swallowed into a larger body . |
| 3 | Jane Barker 's first poems were written for a small coterie including many Cambridge scholars , along the lines of the ‘ Society of Friendship ’ of her literary model Katherine Philips [ q.v. ] ; and when she moved to London in the 1680s , some of these poems were published in the unauthorized Poetical Recreations ( 1688 ) . |
| 4 | They began life together at Cheam and moved to Wimbledon in the 50s with their children , Terry , who now lives in Nevada with her husband and four girls and son , Richard , who is based at Toddington near Luton . |
| 5 | Brannen , born on a farm at Sadberge and raised at first Long Newton and then Yarm , moved to Stoke at the age of 20 partly to study a sports and recreation degree at North Staffordshire Polytechnic but mainly to train under the guidance of Jim Talbot , the national decathlon coach . |
| 6 | Charles Sweeny , born of wealthy parents at Scranton , Pennsylvania , on 3 October , 1909 , moved to Britain in the late 1920s with his younger brother , Robert ( Bobby ) , who was to become briefly engaged to the Woolworth heiress , Barbara Hutton . |
| 7 | Cheyney moved to Venice in the 1840s , where he lived at the Palazzo Soranzo-Piovene on the Grand Canal . |
| 8 | Alone , she sank into a chair and covered her eyes with her fingers , moved to tears by the way her staff had reacted to the bad news . |
| 9 | Helen Brotherton moved to Dorset after the end of the Second World War and has lived there ever since . |
| 10 | But when Wedgwoods moved to Barlaston before the Second World War , the place became a steel works , and all the old buildings and kilns have since been demolished by the British Steel Corporation . |
| 11 | Among the issues discussed was compensation for the 800 Volhynian Czechs who moved to Czechoslovakia after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 [ see pp. 34460-62 ] . |
| 12 | Then he moved to Bordeaux for the winter , before returning to Orléans and Paris . |
| 13 | With her parents , she moved to Wales at the age of 14 and served in the RAF — briefly — as a nurse . |
| 14 | Being unfit for service , and to escape the danger of bombing , Firbank moved to rooms in the High Street , Oxford , in October 1915 , and remained there until September 1919 . |
| 15 | Mabbott moved to Dublin during the summer of 1661 , surrendering the office to the Crown in June 1664 for £4,800 . |
| 16 | If you had been an out-of-work farm hand near Inverness , or near Dumfries , why might you have been one of many who moved to Glasgow in the last century ? |
| 17 | BP was among the many leading companies and other organisations that contributed to deliberations of the committee . |
| 18 | Jackson lived up to Christie 's description of him as ‘ pound for pound perhaps the best athlete in the world ’ as he scorched to victory in the Heysel Stadium in 12.99 secs the seventh fastest of all-time . |
| 19 | In Berlin the Jewish cemetery was damaged on Sept. 16 , and on Sept. 25 three men were arrested for the bombing on Aug. 31 of a memorial in Berlin dedicated to victims of the holocaust . |
| 20 | William O'Hara proposed to Ellie on the anniversary of their first date . |
| 21 | Your own four-record set devoted to music of the Second Viennese School was , I know , one of your most cherished projects . |
| 22 | So what is it doing in a book devoted to places off the beaten track in Switzerland ? |
| 23 | Macari 's reputation for betting stretches back to his days with Celtic , when he rose to prominence under the tutelage of the club 's great manager , the late Jock Stein , a man who had his own formidable reputation when it came to an each way bet . |
| 24 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 25 | Figures 4–6 , above , show that whereas only 5% of items from the Main Building were placed on reserve , this figure rose to 23% in the case of material from the Advocates ' Library , and 45% in the case of books outhoused in the Annexe . |
| 26 | Helped to some extent by a profits upgrading from James Capel ( Amstrad 's broker ) , shares rose to 87p in the spring . |
| 27 | He won the Military Cross and rose to Major in the first world war . |
| 28 | Sell on a strike they say , so no doubt the time to sell 3DO Co Inc 's shares are as soon as the first marketable interactive multimedia home entertainment centres to the company 's standard are announced : the shares , floated at $15 , rose to $20.125 on the first day of trading going to $24 on the second day . |
| 29 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 30 | Marinello rose to fame on the back of one of Hibernian 's greatest eras . |