Example sentences of "move [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main Jacobite army now moved on from Dalwhinnie to Perth , and from there to Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant . |
| 3 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 4 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 5 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 6 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 7 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 8 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 9 | Earnings per share moved up from 14.04p to 15.36p and the company is raising the final dividend from 4.34p to 4.57p , to boost the total by 5.3 per cent to 6.36p . |
| 10 | SEVENTY-EIGHT-year-old Pop Staples belongs to that great generation of bluesmen who moved up from Mississippi to Chicago in the 1930s . |
| 11 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean , obviously erm , I think we originally moved back from Thursdays to Wednesdays because on Thursdays I think erm |
| 13 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 14 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 15 | Pre-tax earnings , at £111.2m , were 17.4pc up on the 1992 figure of £94.7m while turnover moved ahead from £834.6m to £919.9m , an increase of 10.2pc . |
| 16 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 17 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 18 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd finally won custody of my daughter Eva and we had just moved down from Scotland to Leeds with my boyfriend Glynn . |
| 20 | The single parameter that we manipulated was whether the landmarks and feeders occupied fixed locations across trials ( group fixed ) or were moved randomly from trial to trial ( group varied ) . |
| 21 | Showell Styles balanced the junior tales about Septimus Quinn with a sequence of adult novels built round a middle-aged naval officer who , at thirty-three , had moved only from midshipman to the unsatisfactory rank of acting lieutenant because of intermittent periods of unemployment at the end of the eighteenth century and a sad lack of useful patronage . |
| 22 | So he had moved away from Jewtown to a considerably larger and more imposing semi-detached house in Blackrock — a suburb which , though no more than a mile beyond Celtic Crescent , was undeniably middle-class and rising . |
| 23 | The Ferguson 14M1 is a lightweight portable 14in Colour Television which can be moved easily from room to room — so the family can keep up with the soaps whilst you keep your eye on the ball . |
| 24 | Because models were moved frequently from rock to rock throughout an immense colony , we believe no individual 's response was scored more than once . |
| 25 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |
| 26 | The family may well have moved around from street to street , but by 1785 they were settled in Fountain Lane , that most familiar of Titford haunts . |
| 27 | After Wandsworth Nicholson had moved around from prison to prison , serving his time as surely as any of the inmates in those institutions . |
| 28 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 29 | But the basic skills are acquired amazingly quickly , though moving on from balls to clubs too soon is a bit of a clanger . |
| 30 | Vincent would move on from evangelist to artist , and the great Russian , determined to live a life modelled on Christ , was beginning to regard all art as frivolous . |