Example sentences of "move [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she moved about a yard to her right and laid another one at the edge of the roof with the yellow head pointing outwards . |
| 2 | The couple returned to the Howard estate at Cardington in Bedfordshire at first but moved for a time to Lymington on the Hampshire coast later , for the sake of her health . |
| 3 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 4 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 5 | Luke moved through a doorway that lead off from the right of the hallway and disappeared from view . |
| 6 | In the fifth century Augustine retained many of the bold and dramatic metaphors of his contemporaries , but moved towards a view of atonement in which Christ the mediator between God and man was pre-eminent . |
| 7 | Those imperialists who took the full measure of Britain 's declining ability to dominate the world either economically or militarily , moved towards a strategy of imperial consolidation . |
| 8 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 9 | She moved towards a seat and regarded the girl steadily for a long moment . |
| 10 | It has been argued that the Conservative government has in its policy changes ( if not publicly voiced ) moved towards a more Keynesian stance . |
| 11 | During September , as the fighting continued in Bosnia-Hercegovina despite the efforts of the Geneva conference [ see below ] , the UN moved towards a more interventionist policy , including more military support for relief convoys . |
| 12 | Feeling suddenly cold and miserable , Robert moved towards a bench at the edge of the pond . |
| 13 | If de Gaulle entertained hopes of an alliance , however , he was to be swiftly disappointed : the MRP did not endorse the Bayeux constitution and , instead , moved towards a compromise with the parties of the left . |
| 14 | Lindsey smiled shyly , as they moved towards a battered black car which was parked close by . |
| 15 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 16 | A car pulled up behind the Land Rover and disgorged Gareth and then Tremayne who moved like a tank across the earthy verge and rocked to a halt a yard away . |
| 17 | He moved like a ghost , his large upper body rigid , his short legs exact metronomes : evolutionary perfection . |
| 18 | The wood fire , now past its crackling stage , had settled into a comfortable glow and the wind , seldom absent from the headland , moved like a benign , gently hissing spirit through the still and soaring clappers of the mill . |
| 19 | It moved like a spider , and looked like — well , it looked like a spider . |
| 20 | The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me . |
| 21 | But he no longer moved like a wave of the sea . |
| 22 | On the ramp he cut a frankly glamorous figure , where he moved like a series of elegant decisions . |
| 23 | He moved like a shadow , and the first thing she knew of his presence behind her was when he got hold of her arm , forcing her to turn around . |
| 24 | She moved like a sleep-walker , her heart shipwrecked within her . |
| 25 | He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose . |
| 26 | He moved like a flash . |
| 27 | They moved into a circle . |
| 28 | Then we moved into a street called Portugal Place . |
| 29 | By October 1964 in the complex shifting sands of Ugandan parliamentary politics this alignment changed to one in which Obote felt strong enough to break his alliance with the kabaka , with whom he moved into a position of open enmity . |
| 30 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |