Example sentences of "move [adv] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant . |
| 2 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 3 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 4 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 5 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 6 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 7 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 8 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 9 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 10 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 11 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 12 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 13 | The single parameter that we manipulated was whether the landmarks and feeders occupied fixed locations across trials ( group fixed ) or were moved randomly from trial to trial ( group varied ) . |
| 14 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 15 | Because models were moved frequently from rock to rock throughout an immense colony , we believe no individual 's response was scored more than once . |
| 16 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |
| 17 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 18 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 19 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 20 | Vincent would move on from evangelist to artist , and the great Russian , determined to live a life modelled on Christ , was beginning to regard all art as frivolous . |
| 21 | Was it even now shadowing them , moving soundlessly from cover to cover , like a tiger in the steel jungle ? |
| 22 | It rested on the myth that the peasantry were instinctively socialist and that it was possible for Russia to bypass capitalism , moving directly from semi-feudalism to socialism based on the peasant commune . |
| 23 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 24 | In the RAF you get used to moving around from appointment to appointment . |
| 25 | Hostel dwellers do not move around from place to place as much as many people think . |
| 26 | The day I was there was the still , silent kind of a winter day when the light clings to the skyline slowly moving round from east to south to west . |
| 27 | That may change and as we move out of the recession hopefully , er the er erm position will improve , but it does mean that for next year we are not in a position to er achieve the level of income that the , the current year 's budget er required us to and which er on a normal knock-on basis as this element of the budget moves on from year to year , we would n't er have very much hope I would er put to you of actually meeting the level of income that would allow us to operate er a standstill budget in , in this area . |
| 28 | When you are kneading , move gently from side to side in time with your hands . |
| 29 | We also have a mobile disenchanted society in which people do get on their bikes , move around from bedsitter to bedsitter with growing elements of homelessness and there are serious problems about registration . |
| 30 | They move about from plain to forest , or along the river valleys and in between the mountain passes where they buy , sell or steal things that they can re-sell to other Orcs or Goblins later on . |