Example sentences of "move from [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old ways are still vivid in many people 's minds — rows and rows of very old patients who never moved from their beds , many of them confused and incontinent because of drugs or disease . |
| 2 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 3 | The only way to compare them is to calculate what they would be paying over the whole 25 years if neither of them moved from their present home . |
| 4 | The fireplan would be under the control of the company once it moved from its final assault position on to the enemy position . |
| 5 | At the end of World War II , GCHQ , as GCCS had become , moved from its wartime headquarters at Bletchley Park , north of London , to Cheltenham , where it swiftly sprawled over two large sites — Oakley and Benhall . |
| 6 | The cenotaph provides a fitting frontispiece to the chapel and here the memorial garden , cared for by members of the Keyingham Royal British Legion , now houses the remains of the ancient village cross , moved from its site a few yards away where it would have caused an obstruction to modern traffic flow . |
| 7 | Under the then prevailing adjustable peg arrangements , any one currency could fluctuate within a band ( or ‘ tunnel ’ ) 1 per cent either side of the dollar par value , so if one EC currency moved from its floor to its ceiling and another moved from its ceiling to its floor there would be a 4 per cent relative fluctuation in the values of the two currencies . |
| 8 | Played by Eve Bland in the film , Kathleen moved from her council flat in Prioress Street off London 's Old Kent Road after McAvoy gave her a £500,000 house at Turpington Farm in Kent . |
| 9 | In 1989 , when Miss T. was 17 or 18 , she moved from her mother 's home to live with her paternal grandmother . |
| 10 | He moved from her mouth , and smiled , his eyes full of desire . |
| 11 | At times the sounds seemed so close he could have reached out and touched them but if he moved from his spot everything fell silent . |
| 12 | Quinn 's tough background dictated that he had to know how to take care of himself , especially when at a young age he moved from his native Mexico into an area of Los Angeles where everyone was either Irish , Mexican or black . |
| 13 | She moved from his arms and slowly untied her leather apron . |
| 14 | As he moved from his desk he slipped and spattered the page with blots . |
| 15 | Mahmud , unable to restrain himself any longer , moved from his position in the slips to face Sheikh directly . |
| 16 | The Norman Hugh de Riveire , hands on his hips , moved from his viewpoint to the King 's and studied the skyline . |
| 17 | Marc moved from his position by the window as if aware of missing this exchange , and came to stand over them . |
| 18 | Mr Powell , 18 , moved from his Sheffield home into Derby and Rathbone Hall , Green Lane , Mossley Hill , Liverpool , in October . |
| 19 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 20 | He moved from our old house to a smaller house in . |
| 21 | Oh aye that 's why we moved from our house she had me up , had played bloody hell over it , no bugger was getting no sleep |
| 22 | I moved from my little flat to join a transsexual community , people the other way round to me — men to psuedo-wimmin — but who understood me . |
| 23 | When I moved from my own place er in Walmgate to here I still underestimated how much furniture I 'd got . |
| 24 | Competitors complained that the restriction would effectively turn the race into a one-mile sprint at the end when motorcycle outriders moved from their path to allow the race to proceed at its natural pace . |
| 25 | This change can not take place without the involvement of the people themselves and , therefore , they must be moved from their traditional passivity towards an active role in shaping their own lives . |
| 26 | He thought it a crime that folds should be moved from their place on his shoulder . |
| 27 | About 50 UN envoys monitoring the violence moved from their Johannesburg hotels to the suburbs after four were attacked . |
| 28 | In any case , they had moved from their Islington address — 14 James Street , St Peter 's Street — to 140a High Street , Hoxton Old Town , by 1852 , in which year a third son , Henry Joseph , was born . |
| 29 | When the guard was told that no one had moved from their seats he became very worried because he said he had to make out a report to British Rail as to the cause of the delay and he then said , ‘ I 'll have to put it down to person or persons unknown ’ . |
| 30 | And the damage to health caused by alcoholism and stress among Soviet citizens moved from their homes was probably greater than that caused by released radioactivity . |