Example sentences of "[noun pl] move [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New York Giants moved back into the play-off picture by beating Washington Redskins 24–7 . |
| 2 | Her fingers moved slowly over the paperweight . |
| 3 | Now , as her fingers moved smoothly over the piano keys , Laura acknowledged that Julie was right . |
| 4 | When English merchants moved out into the world beyond Europe , it was natural enough that the Spice Islands became their ultimate objective . |
| 5 | His eyes moved swiftly over the scene before him , registering but not acknowledging Pascoe and Dalziel . |
| 6 | Her eyes moved swiftly to the others . |
| 7 | So neither television nor the parties moved closer to the electorate on unemployment : they moved away from the electorate , increasingly avoiding an issue the public wanted to discuss . |
| 8 | Health : Bridging the dental divide With more dentists moving out of the NHS , private insurance can ease the expense , finds Ann Steele |
| 9 | In western Siberia , while Turkic tribes from the steppes moved into the southern fringe of the forest and pressed upon the Samoeds , the Ugrian ( Khanty and Mansi ) peoples moving eastward from the Ural mountains into the Ob-Irtysh basin also mixed with the Samoeds , who by then occupied the northern forest and tundra from the White Sea in the west almost to the Lena in the east . |
| 10 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 11 | Dominant hens assert their priority by pecking subordinate hens : pecked subordinate hens move out of the way of the pecker , to allow the dominant hen access to the nesting site , or roosting site she was using , or the food she was about to eat . |
| 12 | More people are taking out dental insurance against the painfully high expense of private dental treatment as more dentists move out of the NHS . |
| 13 | Under normal conditions limestone allows aqueous salt solutions to move constantly through the stone . |
| 14 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 15 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 16 | The Sri Lankan 's bare feet moved silently across the carpet . |
| 17 | ’ For five minutes the two engineers moved around in the steam and smoke , and looked at the big engines . |
| 18 | But as the fear of invasion receded and the public outrage at the scandals of the Arandora Star and the Dunera made itself known , refugees moved up in the War Office estimation . |
| 19 | Children eyed the closed Essoldo ; a handful of golfers moved briskly on the golf-course . |
| 20 | Glancing down to see brown rats moving confidently amongst the metal chairlegs , sniffling at the discarded sweet papers and orange peel . |
| 21 | The noise is footsteps moving away from the door . |
| 22 | Such survivals in attitude and custom , however , can not obscure the fact that the fundamental direction of European society had been for decades moving increasingly into the hands of a bourgeoisie whose assumptions were at bottom not those of aristocratic society , even if it aped aristocratic style . |
| 23 | THE INSPIRALS move down to the Harbour area and sit on a green patch with the sun beating down like it can rarely do in Oldham . |
| 24 | Interesting comparisons there should be here between two Wagnerian divas moving over into the Strauss Fach , with special attention to the Four Last Songs , both recorded live at concerts , but there is no contest . |
| 25 | Efficiency will also improve as prices and costs move down under the pressure exerted by more competitive markets . |
| 26 | As α increases , a critical value α c is reached each time the i th layer of target atoms moves out of the cones , allowing for head-on collisions and , hence , back scattering as shown in Fig. 1 . |
| 27 | According to the well-established theory of Huxley and Hanson , contraction of the fibril is due to the sliding of the actin and myosin filaments relative to each other *Hanson , 1956 ; Pringle , 1966 ; Osborne , 1967 ) ; the actin filaments move further into the A-disk while the myosin filaments thus approach the Z-disks . |
| 28 | First , the abolition of government restrictions on bank lending in 1980 paved the way for the banks to move forcefully into the mortgage market . |
| 29 | Recovery occurs when the affected intestinal epithelial cells on the villi are replaced by new enterocytes moving up from the crypts . |
| 30 | Then the father in the book had a fatal heart attack and she went white , putting it down , tears burning her eyes as the aircraft engines whined on and on , and the Oriental stewardesses moved gracefully around the cabin , collecting drinks and trays . |