Example sentences of "make the [num ord] move " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting . |
| 2 | A group of veteran kite flyers , led by past-President of the American Kitefliers Association Bevan Brown and his wife Margo , made the first move . |
| 3 | Who made the first move ? |
| 4 | It was Janice who made the first move to end the evening . |
| 5 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |
| 6 | If they have upset you , perhaps they are hoping you will make the first move . |
| 7 | Other Unionists , including Law himself , were less sure , even though they shared their colleagues " concern about the political and economic situation ; nevertheless it was agreed to go ahead , but that Lloyd George should make the first move . |
| 8 | Neither the foundationalist nor the solipsist can make the first move . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll play a waiting game , and let Michael make the first move , ’ I said . |
| 10 | She would definitely not make the first move . |
| 11 | Let him make the first move . |
| 12 | Maxim felt a moment of total disorientation before he realised that something must have gone badly wrong , that because she had not greeted him he must stay being Winterbotham , that because they were strangers he must make the first move . |
| 13 | Quite often it is the clearing banks which make the first move by announcing a base rate change before the Bank alters its intervention rates . |
| 14 | ARSENAL have made the first move towards landing Everton 's Martin Keown in a £2.5 million deal . |
| 15 | Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China . |
| 16 | And now Cambridge United , who recently sacked controversial manager John Beck , have made the first move . |
| 17 | A Babycham survey revealed that 83% of men favour women making the first move in relationships . |
| 18 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 19 | We were both trembling with desire , afraid to make the first move . |
| 20 | Then , both of them a little awkward , a little shy , not liking to make the first move , the Shotterys had walked together down the path , away from the little group at the church porch . |
| 21 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 22 | If he was at all interested it was up to him to make the first move . |
| 23 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 24 | It is up to them to make the first move . ’ |
| 25 | She was determined not to make the first move . |
| 26 | He had decided to do nothing further for the present and leave it to Berowne to make the first move . |
| 27 | Those weeks , not seeing him , wondering , too proud to make the first move . |
| 28 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |
| 29 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 30 | The chief innovation is allowing the third umpire to make the first move in decision-making , which the TCCB admits could lead to : ‘ Suspension of a decision already made ’ . |