Example sentences of "move [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was the faintest of clicks and the door moved inward a fraction . |
| 2 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 3 | The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told . |
| 4 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 5 | The young woman moved away a little and looked more carefully into the shop window . |
| 6 | She moved away a little , patting her petticoats and looking at the dog . |
| 7 | Erm I just moved probably a half a pace so P C would get exactly the same view as myself . |
| 8 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 9 | The train moved forward a few yards and stopped . |
| 10 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 11 | The Luggage yawned , and moved forward a fraction of an inch . |
| 12 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 13 | Although moved only a few score yards , the fabric of the buildings was sorely tested by what was in effect a prolonged minor earthquake . |
| 14 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 15 | My initial instinct is to move a couple of hundred yards or so but some of my most memorable catches have occurred when I have moved only a couple of swims further down the drain . |
| 16 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 17 | Meredith , bearing in mind Harriet 's warning that this horse might kick , prudently moved away a little . |
| 18 | A life of serious touring is exchanged for less glamorous travel : moved once a week when mum hoovers the bedroom . |
| 19 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 20 | For example , as the stick is moved forwards a little , the eyes see the nose of the glider moving down , and the brain expects the sensation and understands what is happening . |
| 21 | Well erm it 's a combination of both those factors er as I 've mentioned at the outset the development programme has moved ahead a little more slowly than we would wish , the main reasons for this were associated firstly with the delay in selecting equipment er and that took longer than our contractor ha had imagined . |
| 22 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 23 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 24 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 25 | My cataract operation has been moved forward a fortnight for the rather odd reason that the hospital is ‘ having to cancel all non-urgent operations in October ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It was hard to believe the change you could see by moving just a couple of kilometres out of West Germany , one of the richest countries in the world . ’ |
| 27 | There was dappled shade for those who preferred it or , by moving just a little , the afternoon sun for those who could stand the heat . |
| 28 | I felt as if I were moving just a beat faster than everyone else . |
| 29 | If patients were known to be moving away a letter detailing their surveillance history was sent to their doctor or next supervising consultant . |
| 30 | Moving forward a little , in 1958 Lillie attended the first UN Conference on the Law of the Sea . |