Example sentences of "move [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years . |
| 2 | Suddenly she switched on a yellow lamp that stood by her on the table and moved the snake-like stem so that Larry 's face was spotlighted as if on stage . |
| 3 | Damian said softly as he moved the black knight to trap the white king . |
| 4 | Then he moved the black rook so that it sat solidly behind the white bishop , attacking it in response despite the presence of the white queen three squares behind the bishop . |
| 5 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 6 | Alan Shannon , a Peterhead delegate , who moved the successful motion , said : ‘ Peterhead has been the dumping ground for disruptive prisoners for years . |
| 7 | This loan moved the fund-raising timetable along considerably . |
| 8 | He moved the red frame and felt its magnetic base gripping the surface again . |
| 9 | Cussons moved the creative work for its household brands into BDH in April . |
| 10 | Brenda entered the exhibit number carefully in the day-book and moved the plastic-shrouded bundle to the shelf of exhibits waiting to go . |
| 11 | With difficulty Li Yuan brought the Arab 's head round and moved the stubborn beast two paces closer to the watching T'ang . |
| 12 | She moved the top part of her body forward and deliberately pushed herself against Johnny 's chest . |
| 13 | Barney explained the intricacies of the pre-selector gearbox , after which Julie engaged first gear and , with a slight jolt , moved the big car slowly down the station drive . |
| 14 | Erm , as the person who mo , moved the original motion , I would be very happy to move the recommendations , and to thank Mr , Mrs , Mr and Mr , who are the only members here present who voted for it at the time . |
| 15 | Er , I moved the original motion , and the thinking at the time was , after a lot of discussion , that eight one as it appears on the agenda , to maintain the estate at around it 's level was the correct decision . |
| 16 | He moved the wet towel and began to straighten her hair , hovering over her like a dark-faced god , and Maggie knew she should be battling with him . |
| 17 | Repairs to the Cages affected by the falling branch were completed and the Zoo 's formal admission of defeat came when they moved a Chilean eagle into the golden eagle 's old cage . |
| 18 | A computer error moved a decimal place one unit to the right . |
| 19 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 20 | There is also much evidence from a variety of sources that the labouring poor moved a great deal in search of employment , if usually not over very great distances . |
| 21 | The couple moved a mobile home onto their twenty acre smallholding at Awre after they bought the land four years ago . |
| 22 | A page behind the only fully-framed chair moved a long-shafted fan over his mistress 's head . |
| 23 | The bushes , you know , so I , I moved a little bit of it , it 's got . |
| 24 | One is ‘ historical ’ , where we want to know what particular motive moved a particular actor on a particular occasion . |
| 25 | The firs Chiswick Public Library was established in 1890 , in Bourne Place , and moved a short distance , eight years later , to larger premises in Dukes Avenue , which were subsequently enlarged . |
| 26 | Some of us have moved the other way , out of teaching . |
| 27 | Having moved the other side of the fence I was determined to stay there . ’ |
| 28 | As we 've seen , it 's usually fairly easy to correct if you do find you 've inadvertently moved the incorrect point cam . |
| 29 | LMS has moved the central concern of school management away from curriculum development and nearer to the heart of pedagogy , teaching and assessment . |
| 30 | Yeats regarded Gibbon as being responsible for having ‘ moved the whole opposition against the poor girl ’ . |