Example sentences of "moved a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 2 | A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right . |
| 3 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 4 | There is also much evidence from a variety of sources that the labouring poor moved a great deal in search of employment , if usually not over very great distances . |
| 5 | The couple moved a mobile home onto their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago . |
| 6 | A page behind the only fully-framed chair moved a long-shafted fan over his mistress 's head . |
| 7 | The bushes , you know , so I , I moved a little bit of it , it 's got . |
| 8 | One is ‘ historical ’ , where we want to know what particular motive moved a particular actor on a particular occasion . |
| 9 | The firs Chiswick Public Library was established in 1890 , in Bourne Place , and moved a short distance , eight years later , to larger premises in Dukes Avenue , which were subsequently enlarged . |