Example sentences of "[noun] move in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 2 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 3 | A fox on the run , seconds before the leading hound moves in for the kill . |
| 4 | On its return from the string , the hammer lands on this shelf , causing the whole body of the check to move in towards the hammer . |
| 5 | Mr Bates hopes to finalise a deal that will reduce his payment from the asking price of £22.85 million to £13 million — and mean Fulham moving in at the end of this season . |
| 6 | Then Tin Pan Alley moved in on the act and the soul was lost … ’ |
| 7 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 8 | There followed several weeks of feverish preparations as equipment and systems were installed and staff moved in to the facility . |
| 9 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 10 | It began when the man moved in to the home at Hersham , Surrey . |
| 11 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 12 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 13 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 14 | In battle scenes the villainous attackers move in from the right and the valiant defenders , usually the good guys obstinately rejecting defeat , are on the left . |
| 15 | The 24-year-old Bromborough plus one man moves in at the expense of Royal Liverpool 's Ian Farrall , who is the only one out of the team which beat Cumbria in the first league match at Seascale . |
| 16 | Police refused to intervene as protesters attempted to drive their cars to the point on the Atlantic coast where conservationists yearly attempt to count the birds before the hunters move in for the kill . |
| 17 | There 'll be thicker cloud moving in from the south west . |
| 18 | I can not see the flats becoming empty on a Friday , and the bulldozers moving in on the Sunday or the Monday . |
| 19 | I Application of the fingertip strike 1 : the attacker moves in from the side . |
| 20 | Like a fog moving in from the sea the silence swept toward the back of the room and then up into the balconies . |
| 21 | The stain lightened slowly to reveal lowering clouds moving in from the north ; the sea became less ink-like too , and showed itself as a mess of enormous and ever-moving swells picked out here and there by off-white skeins of spray . |
| 22 | As evening approached , Alec stood at the top of the steps , hair blowing wildly in the wind , watching the heavy black storm clouds moving in from the Atlantic . |
| 23 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 24 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 25 | Like the weather moving in from the Atlantic , we can at best track its course and make reasonable preparations for its coming . |
| 26 | The likeliest explanation is that Greek settlers moving in from the south gradually came to dominate the many hill tribes of the region — much as , a little later , Chinese moving into what is now Vietnam came to dominate the local tribes there . |
| 27 | In horse opera , the aggressor in the black hat moves in from the right … |
| 28 | Then , when the predator moves in for the kill , at the very last moment the butterfly fish switch direction and dash rapidly forward , leaving the frustrated would-be killers snapping at empty water . |