Example sentences of "move [adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They moved slowly and steadily towards the stranded taxi and then they stopped . |
| 2 | Smallfry peeled off her gloves and moved slowly and elegantly across the kitchen . |
| 3 | They left the superstructure and moved slowly and carefully along the starlit open deck , the increasing wind hammering and buffeting at their bodies . |
| 4 | He moved slowly and cautiously across the pitch-dark room until his knees touched the edge of the bed . |
| 5 | He moved slowly and cautiously through the dead roots and broken timber . |
| 6 | The serial strategy involved thinking of or placing your finger on an imaginary scale and moving backwards and forwards along that scale as adjectives were successively read out until a final impression was reached ; ‘ after the first adjective I rated the person in my head , then moved backwards or forwards along the scale after each attribute ’ or ‘ 1 . |
| 7 | As we follow trajectories starting at two close-together points , we move to points with the same symbolic descriptions but with the central mark moved further and further to the right . |
| 8 | As this work proceeded they began to include discussions of ever-earlier periods , and therefore they moved more and more into the field of anthropology . |
| 9 | She moved quickly but cautiously down the stairs and stood close to the front door , edging towards the spy-hole , squinting through it . |
| 10 | Then he pulled the door to behind him and moved quickly and efficiently across the floor between the dancers and disappeared into the committee room . |
| 11 | The Sandhopper moved evenly and unhurriedly through the water . |
| 12 | Many society members attended the Festival to watch the team performing , and they really did us proud as they moved rhythmically and gracefully through the Medau hoop-item — aptly named ‘ Whirlpools ’ — devised and produced by Jean , whose live piano music was enhanced by percussion from Margaret Charlwood . |
| 13 | Africans were moved further and further from the line of rail , reflecting the fact that in settler territories their main economic contribution was to be labour for the Whites . |
| 14 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
| 15 | From the study above them , however , came the sound of footsteps moving backwards and forwards across the floor . |
| 16 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |
| 17 | Some present-day caddies , sponsored by golf equipment companies and able to command ‘ endorsement ’ fees , earn more than many of the players , as well as moving more and more into the limelight . |
| 18 | [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors . |
| 19 | This prevents his eyes moving forwards or backwards along the line . |
| 20 | Ruthven cradled his cat and stroked the back of its head , his hand moving faster and faster across the animal 's fur until it stirred restlessly and mewed in protest . |
| 21 | It moves smoothly and pleasantly through the course of her dedicated career without any recognition of her gender constituting a difficulty . |
| 22 | Edberg moves gracefully and speedily over the grass in a way that would surely be the envy of a Torville and Dean . |
| 23 | Then he began to move slowly and carefully past the table , on the opposite side to Moore . |