Example sentences of "[noun sg] begin to move [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scattered cheers answered him , big Mary gave a ‘ Heeuggh ! ’ like a dancer , and the whole throng began to move along the road westwards , past the dark silent façade of the inn , the equally silent church and manse , towards the gates of Castle Menzies . |
| 2 | Since the machine began to move towards the water as soon as they were inside , changing in its damp , smelly and retracted confines was none too easy , despite the lure of their newly acquired bathing costumes . |
| 3 | In the meantime , opinion began to move towards the last of the possibilities — and the one which suited Baldwin the best — a minority Labour Government . |
| 4 | This had been defeated and the League began to move from the elaboration of policy to agitation . |
| 5 | That winter Diana 's star began to move into the royal family 's orbit . |
| 6 | Their ambition increased by the movement , until all forty-one were in violent motion , so violent that the Bowl began to move across the table , and Oscar had to take a firm hold of it to keep it from turning over . |
| 7 | October marked the moment at which power began to move from the hands of the mass movement , then at full tide , into the hands of an organization determined to exercise control from above . |
| 8 | As he watched , a supervisor carrying a big black bag began to move along the line of checkouts followed by a young assistant who was holding a large plastic container with a flap in the front like a letter box . |
| 9 | Only after a time do the principles on which the family is based — private property and slavery — come into conflict with the community and its commonality ; this occurs only when the family begins to move into the political domain . |