Example sentences of "[vb past] to london " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening Rachel invited her to dinner , to meet some old family friends who had recently retired from academia and moved to London . |
| 2 | He moved to London in 1988 as assistant director of sales . |
| 3 | In time , Jakki moved to London , Jim to America to work as an exhibitions organiser . |
| 4 | He moved to London and used his EA money for rent and food . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He moved to London where he worked as a gardener with the Greater London Council and became editor of the Irish Militant . |
| 7 | His 28 goals were free tickets to every night-club in London and despite a quiet off-field life when he first moved to London , McAvennie finally succumbed to temptation and took his rightful place in the twilight zone . |
| 8 | After work in Scotland , Christina moved to London and became research officer for the General Federation of Trade Unions . |
| 9 | Later they went to a jazz club in the King 's Road — Uncle Ted had never seen black walls before — where Eva slyly said to Dad , ‘ I think it 's about time we moved to London , do n't you ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 11 | Handsome Gilbey has known Diana since she first moved to London as a teenager . |
| 12 | They first met when she moved to London to share the flat which her father had bought for her . |
| 13 | After one year he was asked to open a new office in Hull which was , he says , ‘ a great challenge and very exciting ’ , and two years later , in 1990 , he moved to London as a local director responsible for one of the investment teams in Greater London . |
| 14 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 15 | ‘ I moved to London and the first thing I did was track down the nearest bloke . |
| 16 | All the nationals except the Daily Star , which had been specifically based there by its owners to soak up the spare capacity left by their other declining title , the Daily Express , had either closed down , moved to London or drastically reduced their Manchester operations . |
| 17 | He had taken what he wanted when he moved to London after leaving university ; the rest of his possessions he had thrown away . |
| 18 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 19 | The firm was founded by Etienne de Tessier , a Huguenot who moved to London in 1712 , and whose grandson probably bought from French Revolutionary emigrés . |
| 20 | CHRISTOPHER HOPE grew up in Pretoria and moved to London in 1975 . |
| 21 | But soon afterwards we moved to London and got divorced three or four years later . |
| 22 | After being turned down by university , I moved to London and joined the Territorial Army , attending evening training sessions in preparation for the physical selection tests . |
| 23 | In 1962 , he landed an inside job on the Observer sports desk and moved to London . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | He moved to London with his wife Coleta and his children in 1542 to seek service under Henry VIII . |
| 26 | In 1825 he moved to London and in 1827 settled in Islington . |
| 27 | On the completion of his articles in 1814 he moved to London to work as an assistant in the office of David Laing [ q.v. ] , architect to the customs and excise , before setting up in independent practice there in 1818 . |
| 28 | He then moved to London , where he built several steam engines , including one for ( Sir ) Samuel Bentham [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | Edward moved to London , and in 1794 his first engraving was published by his brother Daniel . |
| 30 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |