Example sentences of "[adv] moved [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was very quiet and the noises from the wood became distinguishable , as if the wood itself had suddenly moved down nearer the track . |
| 2 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 3 | Although a few other animals were captured , no adults were successfully moved out of the danger area . |
| 4 | One effect of this strategy was to create a large number of internal refugees — some reports estimating that some 150,000 Cambodians were displaced during 1990 , either by being forcibly moved in to the interior by SOC troops , or by fleeing from Khmer Rouge attack . |
| 5 | The car gave a roar , then slowly moved out of the garage ; the dim side-lights showed a pale flicker on the back of the house , then swung around for an instant on to the gardens . |
| 6 | At this time most of them were minor landowners , but they were of gentle descent , and although John of Faircross , son and heir of the ironmaster , styled himself yeoman all his life , his descendants eventually moved up into the gentry . |
| 7 | It was in 1982 that TMAM finally moved in to the airfield , taking over two pre-fabricated huts that had been part of the Station in the late 1940s and early 1950s . |
| 8 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 9 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 10 | Nigel was teaching drama so the project had already moved out of the Humanities department in a rather unsystematic way . |
| 11 | Then the instrument was relaid with the crosshead towards the west so that the lengthening shadow gradually moved back along the hour marks to the twelfth . |
| 12 | During the early part of 1988 the focus of research gradually moved back towards the piezonuclear fusion . |
| 13 | Joy quickly moved back to the counter , she did not enjoy serving ‘ skinnys ’ that was usually Hal 's job . |
| 14 | Grindingly backward , it 's hardly moved out of the 19th century . |
| 15 | The free edge of the epidermis has clearly moved in over the marked wound mesenchyme , leaving less than 10% of it exposed by this stage . |
| 16 | Anyone resident in a house could be held liable for the support of other household members , which meant that a wage-earning son or daughter often moved out of the home in order not to diminish the unemployed parents ' entitlement to benefit . |
| 17 | The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 . |
| 18 | But Dr Dunstaple had now moved on to the treatment . |
| 19 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 20 | FURTHER intelligence about the amazing Mr Humphrey Berkeley , who left the Conservative Party after bequeathing it an elective system for choosing its leaders , joined Labour , then moved on to the SDP , only to resign from it , too . |
| 21 | He dusted it a little , to marvel better , and then moved on to the glass coffin . |
| 22 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 23 | The service 's interest began with his trade with Russia , then moved on to the Iran-Iraq war and the build-up to the Gulf crisis . |
| 24 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 25 | Captain Swan was the trainer on that occasion and Charlie then moved on to the Kevin Prendergast yard where he had to give up Flat racing because of a sharp rise in his weight following an accident . |
| 26 | The interview then moved on to the consideration of the Head of Department 's departmental work , but kept drifting back to his ambition for wider experience . |
| 27 | The window is then moved along to the next position . |
| 28 | Rich blacks have indeed moved out of the ghettos ; but estate agents , anxious to protect property prices , still steer even rich blacks away from the nicest , lily-white suburbs . |
| 29 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 30 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries . |