Example sentences of "move [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes people or Men changed for a moment into some semblance of shape , but then they moved and the mist drifted and they were gone as if they had never been . |
| 2 | He moved and the slaves cowered back , as if , thought Nuadu , they had witnessed the next part before and feared it even more than the mutilating of the boy . |
| 3 | At last something moved and the door opened . |
| 4 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 5 | The body was then moved and the distance between pegs measured . |
| 6 | Phone cables had to be moved and the council agreed to pay . |
| 7 | The bridge was supposed to have been moved and the motorway re-opened by yesterday morning . |
| 8 | My hand went to the handle of the front door but without my touching it , the handle moved and the door crashed open . |
| 9 | Birmingham had changed , friends moved and the city suddenly seemed a very large , cold , unfriendly place . |
| 10 | Up at street level , on the other side of a high wall , the town centre traffic moved and the neon club lights flickered and police vans stood on street corners waiting for trouble to start . |
| 11 | As one train starts to move , a passenger gazing through his carriage window , observes movement but is unsure whether it is his own train that is moving or the train on the opposite line . |
| 12 | These words were defining him , setting the limits in which he could move and the terms in which he could plead , argue or defend himself . |
| 13 | Eventually they will move and the reality will be upon them . |
| 14 | The same principle works when the sound source is moving and the listener is still . |
| 15 | The flash gives the light the appearance of moving and the chicks , in the wheels , try to follow . |
| 16 | A few seconds later the finger stopped moving and the man turned round the book to face Dexter . |
| 17 | It combines , therefore , what have come to be known as structure and conjoncture , the permanent and the ephemeral , the slow moving and the fast . ’ |
| 18 | She could see his mouth moving but the words were strange , alien . |
| 19 | An apparatus that McMillan designed and built to show , with high-speed cinephotography , how normal and diseased heart valves move and the effects of surgery upon them , aided progress in valve surgery throughout the world . |
| 20 | The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend . |
| 21 | Only one piece will be able to move and the other will be captured . |
| 22 | kept the children in bed , told them not to move and the boy , the gi erm , what 's her name , I ca n't think of her name now , she erm , she woke her , her husband chased them both downstairs , tell you where they live , you know Lawrence Hill ? |
| 23 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
| 24 | They had planned to move and the house had already been sold . |