Example sentences of "move from the " in BNC.

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1 In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in .
2 We moved from the orchard taking the prisoners with us and leaving the wounded to be taken to the rear .
3 Basingstoke moved from the Beazer to the Premier Division of the Vauxhall League in 1987 .
4 Basingstoke moved from the Beazer to the Premier Division of the Vauxhall League in 1987 .
5 After our election victory , Willie Whitelaw moved from the Home Office to become Leader of the House of Lords and his place was taken by Leon Brittan , who in a notable promotion became the youngest Home Secretary since Robert Peel .
6 Fifteen minutes later he moved from the window , tore up some pages , sat looking at the scraps , and then began to write again .
7 Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one .
8 Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy .
9 Then he moved from the centre of the room towards Franca , who moved quickly aside , and sat down on the chair which she had vacated , and leaned his head back against the wall and closed his eyes .
10 Unless prohibited , because of the possibility of dust raising , the area then should be swept , the debris collected and moved from the area .
11 He moved from the fireplace .
12 At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other .
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14 McIntosh moved from the midfield to the back row when he went to st .
15 Initially , in 1947 , Sir Stafford Cripps moved from the Board of Trade to a newly created Ministry of Economic Planning but , after a few months ' existence , this was absorbed into the Treasury when Cripps became Chancellor of the Exchequer .
16 Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table .
17 The Masai moved from the great river of the north , freely interpreted as the Nile , says the professor in a note , down towards their present location .
18 I moved from the window and stood over a gaping crack in the floorboards and listened hard .
19 They moved from the welfare approach i.e. ‘ bringing the wonders of modern medical science to the people ’ through a technological approach , part of which was the training of paramedics to resolve the problem of a shortage of health personnel .
20 Most shipowners of the day had not , since the foundation of the Shipping Federation some two decades earlier , moved from the contention that it was an entirely defensive combination , devoted only to the principle of freedom of contract and to securing that those who accepted its ticket would work with other crew members , whether unionised or not .
21 Hammond moved from the doorway , picking up the map Kim had set down on the table .
22 People followed jobs and moved from the regions of economic decline to the more buoyant areas , typically the outer parts of Greater London and selected centres in the Home Counties .
23 They moved from the sitting room to the dining room .
24 Shafts of red sunlight illuminated the timbers as they moved from the support of one building to another across a street filled with people .
25 He may have found service under the Protectorate more congenial than that of the Commonwealth ; in 1653–4 he moved from the navy to the central executive , becoming assistant secretary and then clerk of Oliver Cromwell 's council and treasurer of the protector 's contingencies .
26 During World War I they moved from the United States to Britain , where Grey Walter spent the rest of his life .
27 They moved from the East End of London to Woodford Green in Essex , where she concentrated on her writing .
28 Christine moved from the window .
29 They moved from the galley to the main living area of the wherry .
30 They moved from the rug to the king-size bed for a second demonstration , after which they lay entwined .
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