Example sentences of "[noun pl] move in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 2 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 3 | EPRDF forces moving in from the west began to reach the suburbs of Addis Ababa on the weekend of May 25-26 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I can not see the flats becoming empty on a Friday , and the bulldozers moving in on the Sunday or the Monday . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |