Example sentences of "[vb past] move [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 2 | I knew he was there , and that if I tried to move in a certain direction I 'd bump into him . |
| 3 | In the end I got moved into a single cell : apparently a lot of this girl 's stuff went missing and she practically accused me . |
| 4 | Every muscle on his great wide beefy back seemed to move in a different direction . |
| 5 | It was during this period of considerable stress and pressure that we began to move towards a multi-oppression analysis as a basis for training and for the work . |
| 6 | Later on I managed to move to a quiet dorm which was really great and very essential to saving my sanity . |
| 7 | In February Hungary agreed to move towards a multi-party system , an idea that was once as dreamy as the Danube . |
| 8 | However , during his last period in office , since 1989 , the government had moved towards a market-driven economy with the privatization of state enterprises and trade liberalization . |
| 9 | Glad that the conversation had moved to a wide field , she gave a sigh of relief . |
| 10 | Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival . |
| 11 | I had had one very close childhood friend , Maeve , but her family had moved to a different part of the country and I never saw her again . |
| 12 | By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational . |
| 13 | Tealtaoich had moved with a soft , measured tread towards the flowing , twining shapes , not once hesitating . |
| 14 | Within the year Thomas had moved into a new company , Macdonald Raintree , which was partly owned by BPC and by Raintree in the US and which had been set up mainly to sell rights and coeditions in Raintree output in Europe . |
| 15 | But by 1842 the congregation had moved into a new building , later used by the Presbyterians of McCracken Memorial and demolished in 1968 to make way for their new church hall . |
| 16 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 17 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 18 | The industry , meanwhile , had moved into a different era ; the international standards had changed , and it was time to bring the law up-to-date . |
| 19 | Now , Kirov had moved into a secondary stage , manipulating every conversation so that apparently casual words left just the subtlest hint of something else unsaid , yet implicitly suggested . |
| 20 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 21 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ David had moved into a little house in Chelsea in New York and called Michael Lipman . |
| 22 | Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland . |
| 23 | By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives . |
| 24 | We lost our home — there was no way Mum could afford to go on living there — and had to move into a little council house . |
| 25 | There are many more than ten but I would certainly say they include my grandmother Sarah Howells , and Rosa Parks , the black American woman whose protest sparked off the civil rights movement in the United States during the Sixties when she refused to move from a whites-only seat on a bus . |