Example sentences of "[pers pn] move [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old .
2 My daughter and I moved into one and my son commandeered another .
3 Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness .
4 I move to one side so it 's just Marie on the telly , and watch her .
5 She moved to one side and so did Naylor .
6 The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon .
7 In surveying the discovery of penicillin , we moved from one domain of science to another .
8 In a way contradictory objectives become self-defeating because as we move towards one objective we move away from the other .
9 But exploitation produces conflict and it is because of the conflict inherent in each stage of development that history is the unfolding of a drama in which we move from one kind of society to another and which ultimately leads to socialism .
10 Notice how meaning becomes more and more slippery as we move from one layer to the next .
11 One of those interesting questions is , for example , the relationship between column H and column I and the way in which those relationships change as we move from one district to another .
12 As they moved from one high-ceilinged panelled room to the next , signs of disorder and decay met them at each open door .
13 When they moved from one field to another he leaned down to unlatch and open gates , and as the bay gelding went through the grey mare followed dutifully .
14 It is my contention , by analogy with man , that the sensory world of these animals will shift as they move from one item to another in their behavioural repertoire .
15 There are then the tinkers , who normally come from Ireland and who are engaged in business on a large scale , whether its tarmacking , or metal business , or dealing in furniture and antiques , and the third group who are the drop outs of society who have decided to move around all the time and they do n't care where they move from one place to another however much they inconvenience anybody else .
16 Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers .
17 He moved to one of the windows to draw the curtains , but before doing so he peered out .
18 This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's .
19 It comes as a surprise , often , to realise that such a clause as you know is constrained by rules , varying in meaning as it moves from one part of the sentence to another , and being disallowed in certain contexts .
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