Example sentences of "move [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years .
2 It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ .
3 Cussons moved the creative work for its household brands into BDH in April .
4 Brenda entered the exhibit number carefully in the day-book and moved the plastic-shrouded bundle to the shelf of exhibits waiting to go .
5 She moved the top part of her body forward and deliberately pushed herself against Johnny 's chest .
6 She doused the mop with the bubbling water and moved the heavy tendrils over the kitchen floor until the pale-green surface was moist and dirt-free .
7 Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage .
8 There is also much evidence from a variety of sources that the labouring poor moved a great deal in search of employment , if usually not over very great distances .
9 The couple moved a mobile home onto their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago .
10 A page behind the only fully-framed chair moved a long-shafted fan over his mistress 's head .
11 The bushes , you know , so I , I moved a little bit of it , it 's got .
12 One is ‘ historical ’ , where we want to know what particular motive moved a particular actor on a particular occasion .
13 Having moved the other side of the fence I was determined to stay there . ’
14 LMS has moved the central concern of school management away from curriculum development and nearer to the heart of pedagogy , teaching and assessment .
15 Yeats regarded Gibbon as being responsible for having ‘ moved the whole opposition against the poor girl ’ .
16 I had moved the rubber-handled wrench from the right side of the driver 's seat to the left but I knew its presence was mostly psychological .
17 In a letter to Nannerl ( by then married and living in St Gilgen ) he wrote in wide-eyed appreciation of Wolfgang 's fine apartment ‘ with all the right furniture ’ — the Mozarts had moved the previous autumn to a fashionable address in the Schulerstrasse — and he attended a series of six of his son 's Lenten subscription concerts .
18 Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole .
19 But the plain fact is , and genuinely I mean this , er , er , erm , if it were as simple working across the boundaries between yourselves and the Health Authority , between yourselves and the private sector , with the voluntary sector , and the great army of unpaid helpers if it was that simple , erm , then we would have moved a long way along that line towards implementation of a humane and caring care in the community twenty years ago , when these debates first started .
20 Planning these raids had moved a long way in a few months , as explained in Chapter 10 .
21 What follows may suggest that we have moved a long way from the consideration of reading .
22 Will my hon. Friend please comment on the cost of that and on the fact that , 50 years after the Beveridge report , we have moved a long way from the principle of paying into the kitty through insurance before being allowed to draw out of it ?
23 The fear is that when Raytheon has completed its overall review of the Corporate Jets business , it may move the entire operation to the US .
24 The fear is that when Raytheon completes its overall review of the Corporate Jets business it may move the entire operation to the US .
25 The advantage with this method is that you can move the whole tent in one if you need to re-position for any reason .
26 Tess helped her mother move the big bed against the church wall .
27 Then , as long as this is only a mental exercise , try moving the concocted cliff atop an apartment building .
28 Soil creep is still moving the weathered rocks down the slopes but it is not often that the changing river channel is directly below a slope to remove this rock debris .
29 Its retina forms a cup around a spherical lens , and it sees by moving the light-sensitive cup beneath the lens .
30 The result , 2 , is found by moving the correct number of places along the number line , right for + and left for — signs .
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