Example sentences of "had move [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , during his last period in office , since 1989 , the government had moved towards a market-driven economy with the privatization of state enterprises and trade liberalization .
2 Glad that the conversation had moved to a wide field , she gave a sigh of relief .
3 Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival .
4 I had had one very close childhood friend , Maeve , but her family had moved to a different part of the country and I never saw her again .
5 By 1973 the Conservatives had moved to a statutory prices and incomes policy and massive state intervention in industry ; the reorganization of secondary schooling along comprehensive lines proceeded , albeit at a slower pace than under Labour , and the trade union legislation under the Industrial Relations Act was effectively non-operational .
6 Tealtaoich had moved with a soft , measured tread towards the flowing , twining shapes , not once hesitating .
7 Within the year Thomas had moved into a new company , Macdonald Raintree , which was partly owned by BPC and by Raintree in the US and which had been set up mainly to sell rights and coeditions in Raintree output in Europe .
8 But by 1842 the congregation had moved into a new building , later used by the Presbyterians of McCracken Memorial and demolished in 1968 to make way for their new church hall .
9 However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born .
10 During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists .
11 The industry , meanwhile , had moved into a different era ; the international standards had changed , and it was time to bring the law up-to-date .
12 Now , Kirov had moved into a secondary stage , manipulating every conversation so that apparently casual words left just the subtlest hint of something else unsaid , yet implicitly suggested .
13 Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs .
14 Tony Zanetta : ‘ David had moved into a little house in Chelsea in New York and called Michael Lipman .
15 Juan had moved as a young man to La Blanquilla , the Venezuelan island furthest from the mainland .
16 By the second year , it had moved from a sectoral base to a country base , to help achieve cross-sector policy objectives .
17 We lost our home — there was no way Mum could afford to go on living there — and had to move into a little council house .
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