Example sentences of "move [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 2 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 3 | He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose . |
| 4 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 5 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 6 | MARK JAMES , the 39-year-old Ryder Cup player who seems to thrive in tournaments on exotic islands , yesterday moved into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Tenerife Open . |
| 7 | Menzieshill moved into a challenging position by beating DW Clydesdale . |
| 8 | If the means themselves are changed , if the war moved into a total war phase , then of course the security of those states engaged in that contest is immediately threatened . |
| 9 | Bill Moran moved into a new development in Beaconsfield 2½ years ago . |
| 10 | A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building . |
| 11 | A communication problem between a drawing office and a laboratory arose when the latter moved into a new building . |
| 12 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 13 | Then a few months later he got a job with a trucking company , moved into a new house and eventually got married . |
| 14 | This is Kingsley Black and again he looks to use Collimore 's pace and he moved into a great position there Collimore . |
| 15 | A family who moved into a derelict house thirty years ago have been told they must move out so it can be demolished . |
| 16 | It recently moved into a huge building on Leipzigerstrasse that once housed Hermann Göring 's air ministry . |
| 17 | He moved with a lithe grace ; only the lines on his face gave him away , the little scrawny pouch under his chin . |
| 18 | She moved with a nunlike tranquillity from one sequence to the next , thinking nothing of being asked to drag a beast through a blizzard , and clearly suffering none of the discomfort felt by others . |
| 19 | It moved with a heavy surge and the dog released it , her hackles rising . |
| 20 | Taking a deep breath , she moved with a sudden thrust , propelling herself away from his arms off the bed and on to the floor . |
| 21 | Rachel moved with a hoarse cry , groping blindly for support , trying to reach the sofas , shaking like a leaf . |
| 22 | His timing was exact : even when he moved in a clumsy way he never knocked anything over . |
| 23 | Two of the brass chandeliers suspended above the nave gave a gentle diffused light but the church looked dimly mysterious compared with the glare of the passage and the figures of Massingham and the detective sergeant quietly conferring , of Miss Wharton and the boy patiently sitting like hump-backed dwarfs on low chairs in what must be the children 's corner , seemed as distanced and insubstantial as if they moved in a different dimension of time . |
| 24 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 25 | Callum held her close in the darkened room and she smelt the slightly sour smell of beer on his breath , felt the too intimate touch of his hands on her body as they moved in a slow circle around and among the tightly packed bodies . |
| 26 | Parry moved from a terraced house to a 15th-Century mansion in Kent and bought a Bentley for £81,000 cash . |
| 27 | She moved from a successful career in London to set up an events-arranging company in Liverpool back in 1989 . |
| 28 | We referred in Section 9.6.1 to the growing current account deficit of the USA , and Table 9.2 shows this clearly : it moved from a current account surplus of $6.9 billion in 1981 to a deficit of $ 154 billion in 1987 . |
| 29 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 30 | Her earliest work in cytology concerned the presence of centrosomes in higher plants ; she then moved to a general study of oögenesis and spermatogenesis in Lilium martagon . |