Example sentences of "move [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opened the connecting door to the garage and stepped quickly into the darkness , feeling his way around the car and to the sliding door , which he moved open a few inches , allowing himself to slip out into the night . |
| 2 | He moved aside the folded tephillim and uncovered five neatly-bound books . |
| 3 | Then Davey moved quite a long way away for his work and she hardly saw him . |
| 4 | Fortunately , the corner hedge of an adjacent field was in a direct line with the site , so I moved forward a few paces , switched on my metal detector and started swinging it in an arc before me . |
| 5 | The train moved forward a few yards and stopped . |
| 6 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |
| 7 | In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance . |
| 8 | And people have actually moved quite a long way in the direction of actually working out their own finances . |
| 9 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 10 | Contrary to your impression matters have moved forward a considerable way in relation to the Church Road stop . |
| 11 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 12 | When the winds are southerly the drift would be in the reverse direction , but the waves responsible , being of smaller size due to limited fetch and generally lighter winds , would be capable of moving only the finer material back towards West Bay . |
| 13 | Moving slightly the wrong way . |
| 14 | In all 15 sign languages HELP was signed with the right hand lifting and moving forward the left hand , forearm or elbow . |
| 15 | Moving inland a little bit , are there any significant problems which are caused by weathering or erosion ? |
| 16 | Waged on the high ground in the Montagne de Reims , between Épernay and the Marne to the south and Reims to the north , there followed one of the most gruelling and protracted battles in human history , the line of trenches moving barely a hundred yards throughout four long and bloody years . |
| 17 | I shall come almost at once , if you move just the tiniest bit . |
| 18 | Crab canon , or canon cancrizans , is designed so that while the main voice moves forward the same part is played backwards . |
| 19 | In any one generation , according to the rules of the computer model , it is possible to move only a single step through genetic space . |
| 20 | If you need to move only a short distance , counties , including London , have mobility schemes operating within their own boundaries . |
| 21 | In others the stick will have to move quite a long way forwards before the wing unstalls and the spin stops . |
| 22 | every year I 'm looking for it to move forward a little bit . |
| 23 | There is a version of this where the children have to move forward the same number of paces as the time called out by the shark . |