Example sentences of "move [prep] [art] [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 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 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 | First , the number of firms which moved during the post-war period . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She slithered to one side of the bed , and he moved through the gilded air , angling his body down to hers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The vapour of his breath feathered in a trail behind him as he moved through the cold bushes towards the stream . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest . |
| 12 | " The Unquiet Grave " , " The Grey Cock " and " She Moved Through the Fair " are just three examples of folk songs that deal with the subject . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 15 | Lindsey smiled shyly , as they moved towards a battered black car which was parked close by . |
| 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 | Slowly , slowly , Ruth moved towards the pink cot by the wall . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Charles switched off his torch with a dull click and moved towards the half-open door . |
| 21 | He seized the candelabrum , and , lifting it high , moved towards the pale face . |
| 22 | They moved towards the left-hand urn , sliding through the crowd of their superiors as smoothly as serpents in the garden . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose . |
| 25 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 26 | The wood fire , now past its crackling stage , had settled into a comfortable glow and the wind , seldom absent from the headland , moved like a benign , gently hissing spirit through the still and soaring clappers of the mill . |
| 27 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 28 | MARK JAMES , the 39-year-old Ryder Cup player who seems to thrive in tournaments on exotic islands , yesterday moved into a one-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Tenerife Open . |
| 29 | Menzieshill moved into a challenging position by beating DW Clydesdale . |
| 30 | A day-trip from Phuket had only whetted our appetite and we had left that tourist ghetto by local bus and moved into a hot and grubby Chinese hotel in Phang Nga town . |