Example sentences of "[vb pp] move [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jess wondered uncomfortably whether she was expected to move out of the way and let the old ditherer through , or side with the Law and her own interests . |
| 2 | There was coughing and shuffling and a lot of page-turning as the court prepared to move on to the next case , and Donaldson helped Mrs Balanchine down from the witness-box . |
| 3 | They really ought to have got moved down to the bottom . |
| 4 | One can distinguish a typical trajectory — shown moving down from the upper left of the figure — as married couples reach the statutory retirement-age . |
| 5 | Despite this early re-appraisal only in 1971 did the responsibility for the care of the mentally handicapped move back to the local authorities , where it now remains . |
| 6 | It 's obvious with this training thing takes part you know , I 've got to move in to the grotty old school room in so . |
| 7 | In addition , children have tended to move out of the parental home at a younger age ( Dale et al. |
| 8 | Lucy crawled out of bed around lunchtime , found her way up to the shower while Josie could be heard moving around in the kitchen , and could n't resist leaving aside her own hard soap and supermarket shampoo in order to freeload a few squirts and squeezes of the gels , mousses and lotions that stood on the tiled windowsill . |
| 9 | While the rest of the group stood around the microphone Eva was invited to move over to the corner . |
| 10 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 11 | The elephant had been leading a procession down the Chandni Chowk but had halted outside Gunthe Wallah 's and had refused to move on towards the Red Fort , despite the frantic proddings of its mahout , until it was first allowed to consume a box of Gunthe Wallah 's best mithai . |
| 12 | When filming a combat he pans round two adversaries so that , as each in turn assumes the aggressive role , he is observed moving in from the right . |
| 13 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 14 | The reigning Commonwealth middleweight champion Stevens was forced to move up to the heavier weight following a knee injury and a prolonged viral infection . |
| 15 | At the same time , many inner-city slums were knocked down , so part of the growing post-war population was forced to move out of the central urban areas . |
| 16 | If share dealers beat a rapid retreat this morning , Bond 's bankers — already at the end of their tether — may be forced to move in on the whole group . |
| 17 | A defence agent said Frost and his friends had intended to move on from the lay-by , opposite Invermoriston Post Office , as soon as they got their Giro cheques . |
| 18 | To give an extreme example , fiscal policies designed to increase employment might take effect after a year , when , say , the economy had begun to move out of the recession . |