Example sentences of "move [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Zuwaya moved between the northern coastal strip of semi-desert ( where they arrived in spring for the early pasture ) and the oases of the central Sahara . |
| 2 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 3 | He moved as the elderly people from the bus moved , but without their caution because a red Post Office van had to swerve to avoid him . |
| 4 | The net result was that the United States moved during the 1970s from being 90 per cent self-sufficient in energy to importing 50 per cent of its needs . |
| 5 | First , the number of firms which moved during the post-war period . |
| 6 | As Iraq moved through the 1970s the Baath regime became well settled in power , with the gradual emergence in key positions of a number of individuals from the town of Tikrit on the Tigris , north of Baghdad . |
| 7 | I thought of the corruption of the North American Indians ' dress and the sullen dejection Robert Louis Stevenson had observed in the ragged groups of defeated Indians which gathered around his train as it moved through the Great Plains . |
| 8 | She slithered to one side of the bed , and he moved through the gilded air , angling his body down to hers . |
| 9 | The weather was perfect , and a small army of servants , dressed in plum coloured livery , moved through the mounted followers carrying stirrup cups borne high on silver salvers . |
| 10 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 11 | The vapour of his breath feathered in a trail behind him as he moved through the cold bushes towards the stream . |
| 12 | She moved through the conical root-system of cables which formed the Bridge 's anchor , down towards the centre of the depression , and waited for the others to catch up . |
| 13 | He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest . |
| 14 | " The Unquiet Grave " , " The Grey Cock " and " She Moved Through the Fair " are just three examples of folk songs that deal with the subject . |
| 15 | Only when the soldiers moved opposite the Palestinian front line at Galerie Semaan — and the familiar crackle of Beirut rifle fire began to make the troops nervous — did the Syrian column come to a halt as if scarcely able to take in its objectives . |
| 16 | He moved towards the inner door by which he had entered , no long time ago . |
| 17 | Donna got to her feet , still keeping low , and moved towards the small round window close to the front door in the hall . |
| 18 | He moved towards the first Apache , holding his drink , his elbow sliding along the edge of the bar until he was right next to the Apache . |
| 19 | As he moved towards the two men , Harry savoured the moments of secret observation that preceded their awareness of his presence . |
| 20 | Slowly , slowly , Ruth moved towards the pink cot by the wall . |
| 21 | As they moved towards the green baize door he added as an afterthought , ‘ Oh , and Elsa , if anyone asks you what nationality you are , say you 're Swiss . ’ |
| 22 | Charles switched off his torch with a dull click and moved towards the half-open door . |
| 23 | As they moved towards the next tee she nodded towards her niece . |
| 24 | He seized the candelabrum , and , lifting it high , moved towards the pale face . |
| 25 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 26 | Seurat 's Dimanche après-midi à l'île de La Grande Jatte moved towards the abstract and uniform in form as it did in content , thereby making class distinctions between the figures on a Sunday outing that he drew difficult to see . |
| 27 | As I moved into the small museum , a male chorus started singing over the sound system : Glory , glory , it 's a hell of a way to die … |
| 28 | He moved into the impenetrable gloom of the yard , one hand slipping inside his left hand pocket . |
| 29 | Her father moved into the marital bed , she and her husband moved downstairs . |
| 30 | And so Katherine moved into the spacious apartment on New York 's Upper East Side , overlooking Central Park and a stone 's throw from the Metropolitan Museum . |