Example sentences of "move from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 2 | The firm had developed novel parallel processing software which worked like a ‘ worm ’ , spawning segments which moved from processor to processor . |
| 3 | Kitty moved from hut to hut every few years . |
| 4 | Brendan Daly moved from Defence to Social Welfare , Michael Woods from Social Welfare to Agriculture and Food , Michael O'Kennedy from Agriculture and Food to Labour , and Bertie Ahern from Labour to Finance in place of Reynolds . |
| 5 | That afternoon , as they moved from church to market square and strolled admiringly past rows of handsome eighteenth-century houses , greedily Robbie recorded every second , every sight , every sensation , building up a store of precious memories to take out and brood over when this time out of reality — as it must — came to an end . |
| 6 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 7 | Swiftly Rachel and Nina moved from person to person , releasing seatbelts , offering reassurance and assessing injuries . |
| 8 | They moved from cover to cover within the compound , advancing towards the rear of the battle , following the sounds that would lead them to their own side and to news of the day 's progress . |
| 9 | It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design . |
| 10 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 11 | The Conservative philosophy fitted , so they moved from Labour to Conservative . ’ |
| 12 | It was a I was gon na ask you you know , wh when you moved from shunter to foreman , you had responsibilities for a lot a lot besides the shunting . |
| 13 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 14 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 15 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 16 | Legal action has also been taken , alleging breach of contract , against Frank Yeo , West Country Livestock , who moved from EASE to one of the new electronic auction companies , APEX . |
| 17 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 18 | They were the classic forest hunters of Siberian whose family bands moved from place to place , camping in conical , deerskin-covered tents , the most common type of nomadic dwelling in the north , to which the Russians applied the Komi term chum . |
| 19 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
| 20 | Much of this mobility was accounted for by adolescent farm servants who regularly changed jobs every year ; they moved from farm to farm regardless of parish boundaries but rarely went very far . |
| 21 | For example , although France 's trade deficit with Germany narrowed last year , its trade balance with America moved from surplus into deficit . |
| 22 | Italy moved from victory to victory . |
| 23 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 24 | These men — and overwhelmingly they were men — came from large , poor families , moved from job to job in catering and manual work and were unable to save out of their meagre earnings . |
| 25 | And in adulthood John moved from job to job without settling . |
| 26 | At the end of the luncheon our host Monsieur Jean Louis Dumas-Hermès and his attractive wife , who looked super in an ice-blue silk dress and large matching hat , moved from table to table chatting with guests . |
| 27 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 28 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 29 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 30 | We have moved from consensus to conflict in politics : have we moved in that direction , too , as regards our constitutional order , taking that to mean the broad principles underlying the way government is organised and power exercised ? |