Example sentences of "move in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Tin Pan Alley moved in on the act and the soul was lost … ’ |
| 2 | It seemed a very long time to Lee before the shadowy adults who surrounded the game moved in on the victim and she wondered why she found herself so static , impotent , so lost . |
| 3 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 4 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 5 | Californian Suzanne Accosta , 33 , moved in to the rock star 's Pounds 600,000 flat in Chelsea , southwest London , four days ago . |
| 6 | It all started when Sharon moved in to the flat next door to Tony and asked to borrow some coffee . |
| 7 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 8 | It began when the man moved in to the home at Hersham , Surrey . |
| 9 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 10 | There followed several weeks of feverish preparations as equipment and systems were installed and staff moved in to the facility . |
| 11 | I took the ferry back to Picton , drove to Christchurch , and moved in to the flat in the university Hall of Residence which had been reserved for me . |
| 12 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 13 | Paulus could sense it too as she moved in for the kill to claim a 2-6 , 6-4 , 6-3 victory . |
| 14 | And when she moved in for the kill she was as hard , and as final , as any of her male colleagues . |
| 15 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 16 | But , as the striker moved in for the kill , the defender retrieved the situation with a splendid recovery tackle . |
| 17 | The police moved in as the three loaded part of a haul of 200 kilos of hashish into a warehouse near Madrid . |
| 18 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 19 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 20 | The Shaws moved in at the beginning of December 1906 with a married couple , Henry and Clara Higgs , to look after them . |
| 21 | The boyfriend moved in at the beginning of the summer ; he gets by doing casual work on the farms . ’ |
| 22 | The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest . |
| 23 | Garotting gangs were said to work in threes — a ‘ front stall ’ and a ‘ back-stall ’ who acted is look-outs — and a ‘ nasty ’ man' who moved in from the rear : hug on' had been used by guards in the convict hulks in order to subdue troublesome prisoners , and that this was where the original garotting gangs had learned the art . |
| 24 | When we run the satellite sequence , you can see all the cloud that moved in from the west overnight and the good news is that the back edge is not too far away . |
| 25 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 26 | She swam and sunbathed , went sightseeing , worked on her designs , talked brightly on the phone with Lucy , or Dad or Charles whenever they rang her , forcing herself not to ask whether Guy had moved in on the firm yet , and then wincing when Lucy said that he 'd made his mark in a dramatic emergency board meeting , put up the backs of most of the board of directors when he announced sweeping measures to increase profitability , cut overheads … |
| 27 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The location of the entrepreneurship of the fifth Kondratiev actually seems determined by publicly funded research , and most of the scientific and professional work-force actually moved in to the areas . |
| 30 | 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 . |