Example sentences of "move [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 John wanted to be in bed so that the night would be over quickly and he could move off the next morning ; Mr Stephens had a neighbour who would lend them a handcart and John wanted to be able to push the furniture the eight miles uphill to Crossbridge , settle it , and return the handcart the same day .
2 In some parts of Scandinavia where the land was divided equally , the old person would move between the heirs , receiving food and lodging from each in turn .
3 A quick glance at the rules for inspiration : ‘ … the essayists who can move between the worlds of nature and the arts …
4 Display material , advertisements and so on need the extra quality and , if these are the products which you will be producing it is important to ensure that you can move between the systems without having to change the data .
5 Children may move between the independent and maintained sectors at different stages of their school career ; many different patterns of schooling are possible , some of these are illustrated in Figure 5.15 .
6 As I have already suggested , the stylistics of representation may merge into the view of style as manner , and Spitzer 's own work does move between the two categories .
7 You can now move between the pages of a spreadsheet just by clicking on icons that move up and page and down a page .
8 Moreover , the chromosomes of some strains of E. coli contain enigmatic lengths of DNA ( ‘ insertion sequences ’ ) which code for no known product but can move about the chromosome during bacterial multiplication , activating or silencing genes .
9 The operating units have no fixed position but can move about the network from one location to another .
10 In the ninth century , members of this magnate stratum , this " imperial aristocacy " , could still move about the Carolingian world ; and they moved nearly always as individuals , no doubt with retinues , but not ( an exceptional case apart ) concerting action with groups of kinsmen .
11 They thus have some control over the speed with which the AGV moves through their section , and for those sections where the carrier does not move for the full 20 minutes there is the opportunity to pace their work over that span .
12 Lewis 's and Blackler 's burnt out , and Lime Street — you ca n't hardly move for the hosepipes all over the ground . ’
13 Before he could move for the doors , they were flung open imperiously , revealing a wide-eyed , agonised Auguste outside .
14 I do occasionally move through the range two at a time e.g. 4,6,8 but as often as not that is because I 've economised in not buying all the potencies !
15 The ionised column would move through the atmosphere as the source of strain moved underground .
16 Again a mobile unit will be important so as to be able to gradually move through the woodland .
17 On an ellipse of the proportions of about 2.5:1 the slider on the minor axis would move through the line of the ellipse .
18 The middle diagram shows how objects would move through the visual field for pure rotations round the two horizontal axes , and the right-hand diagram shows , enlarged , the approximate region where the receptive fields shown in Figure 5 had been collected .
19 Different constituents will move through the system at different rates and one time-step in the simulation could represent a day for mobile salts but as much as a millennium for a relatively immobile element such as aluminium .
20 A scroll bar with up and down arrows above and below lets you move through the contents .
21 From any starting point we could move through the maze in such a way as to recreate the dodo , the tyrannosaur and trilobites .
22 Of how his hands would move through the air when he was making a point .
23 And they they they go home and they do n't move out the house until Monday morning .
24 they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up .
25 Oh , I better move out the way , I might get squashed .
26 no you got ta put your legs over cos she would n't move out the way !
27 Unionists would move towards the Conservative Party , and all we would be doing is providing another cul-de-sac for the people of Northern Ireland . ’
28 All institutions in the Ukraine must move towards the use of the local language .
29 It was also agreed that , once the changes implied by these actions were effective in each College , further measures would be taken to reflect the computer developments and to address the issue of adjusting finance in relation to actual costs ( ie by enhancing cost-control and income-generating activities ) so that the Colleges could move towards the state of financial equilibrium implied by the system models .
30 As he began to eat again he heard Donald move towards the cupboard .
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