Example sentences of "[adv] move from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any batteries that do not come out should be gently moved from side to side to allow them to unhook . |
| 2 | The Padre was very weak now , and could only move from place to place if someone helped him . |
| 3 | In every Shakespeare play where prose appears ( as it does in all but four : Henry VI , Parts 1 and 3 ; King John ; Richard II ) , characters constantly move from prose to verse , or from verse to prose , and back again . |
| 4 | In effect , the intellectual centre of gravity slowly moved from parties to pressure groups and a new theory emerged that quickly gained wide acceptance . |
| 5 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 6 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 7 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 8 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 9 | Page references were necessary for this so that pupils could quickly move from purpose to information . |
| 10 | Sedimentation goes on all the time , for ever moving from place to place , for ever cannibalising itself . |
| 11 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 12 | The famous and high-born simply moved from room to room , inclining their heads or smiling as they acknowledged their friends and acquaintances . |
| 13 | The microscope could even move from reading to writing . |
| 14 | There were two mechanisms available — the ancient , rather hazardous and capricious method that distributed spores , the wind ; and the newly arrived messenger service , the flying insects , which were now regularly moving from tree to tree , feeding on the leaves and the spores . |
| 15 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 16 | As speakers switch , so the deictic centre , on which the rest of the deictic system hangs , is itself abruptly moved from participant to participant . |
| 17 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 18 | They tell such horror stories as GE putting up sales teams from competing suppliers in the same hotel and then moving from room to room asking each supplier to think about reducing its bid for the contract . |