Example sentences of "had move [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 2 | I had moved a table into a big window , for I foresaw that we should need all the help we could get from the view . |
| 3 | Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 . |
| 4 | Mrs Murphy had moved a coffee table to the centre of the room and grouped four chairs round it , for the use of the officials of the committee . |
| 5 | The bolt had moved a millimetre , perhaps two . |
| 6 | He had moved a yard or so from the door . |
| 7 | The defendant had moved a few weeks before to another address in the same town , but this fact was not discovered at the time . |
| 8 | He had moved a mile or so up the valley to live at Bullhouse Lodge and work at the nearby corn mill . |
| 9 | As early as 1842 Disraeli had moved a House of Commons motion calling for union of British diplomats and consuls in a single service . |
| 10 | Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number . |
| 11 | He had moved a little closer . |
| 12 | Colonel Feather had then expressed a worry that children could easily reach over and scoop up a fingerful of frosting , perhaps spoiling someone 's chances , so he and Mr Doran — the latter complaining mightily about his lumbago — had moved the cakes to the back of the table . |
| 13 | A man who was very friendly with another , or his senior kinsmen , could adopt a more expository technique : he would sit facing him and take his left hand ; as he made his points he would take his friend 's little finger , move it away from the others and hold it : ‘ first … ‘ then the next finger : ‘ second … ‘ ; until he had moved the digits all to one side , like beads on an abacus . |
| 14 | Then after Farish had displaced these shots and Baxter had moved the jack for Cumbria to hold three , Harlow trailed it again to leave Cumbria still holding one . |
| 15 | Mr Alistair Darling , a Labour front bench Home Affairs spokesman , had moved the amendment to extend the qualifying period . |
| 16 | They were overwhelmed with replies , however , when they asked if people were prepared to come forward as character-witnesses for the parents of the nine South Ronaldsay children whose plight had moved the nation . |
| 17 | My father-in-law had moved the money into the Pyramid Building Society in Melbourne , which was offering the best interest rates available at the time , and it had gone bust . |
| 18 | A few minutes later , Chrissie had moved the cat 's body round to the back of the house , and was escorting her two weeping children down the garden to where Anne Hanvey waited in the school car . |
| 19 | W. C. Anderson — who had moved the Workers ' and Soldiers ' Council resolution at Leeds the previous June — pressed the point , warning : |
| 20 | In a letter to Nannerl ( by then married and living in St Gilgen ) he wrote in wide-eyed appreciation of Wolfgang 's fine apartment ‘ with all the right furniture ’ — the Mozarts had moved the previous autumn to a fashionable address in the Schulerstrasse — and he attended a series of six of his son 's Lenten subscription concerts . |
| 21 | His predecessor , Roh Tae Woo , a former general who embraced democracy , had moved the army out of public politics . |
| 22 | In a third serving of a bankruptcy notice in 1911 , Wilson claimed not only that the Federation had inspired the plaintiff , a seaman called Nielsen , to take the action , but that they had moved the plaintiff from place to place so that he could not be found , making it impossible to discharge the union 's debt to him . |
| 23 | The voice became louder , as if its owner had moved the phone closer to his mouth . |
| 24 | When he realised that none of his children was interested in farming as a career , he had moved the family to Brisbane and had encouraged Belinda in her ambition to become a nurse . |
| 25 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 26 | However , the Slovene authorities , anticipating the move , earlier in the day had moved the defence force command to temporary offices elsewhere in the city . |
| 27 | On May 13 it was announced that Moi had moved the Industry Minister , Dalmas Otieno , to the vacant Manpower Development and Employment Ministry . |
| 28 | The monastic and papal revival from about the year 1000 had moved the Church away from the laity . |
| 29 | As it happened , the Germans had moved the balloons one thousand yards to the left . |
| 30 | He noticed that someone had moved the few horses they had managed to round up , and sent two men to find out where they had been taken . |