Example sentences of "had moved [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalgliesh had moved over to the fireplace , a plain wooden overmantel with an iron surround patterned with grapes and convolvulus set in the middle of the right-hand wall . |
| 2 | Word had quickly got round that at the Marne , in contrast to the generals of the Plaza-Toro breed , who led attacks from the various Chateaux of France , Pétain had moved up into the front line when the infantry quailed under the German shells . |
| 3 | Mr. W.S. Johnston , the Second Master and Head of English , had been appointed to the staff in 1934 , initially as Form Master of Junior B. By 1937 he too had moved up to the Senior School . |
| 4 | Both men had moved up in the world recently and the evidence of their new wealth was all around them in the curtains , the carpets , the original paintings and the quality of the ornaments and effects . |
| 5 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 6 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 7 | Tal and the Zodiac Twins had moved off along the quay , between the piles of crates and drums , out of sight . |
| 8 | True , she had been a baby at the time of the war , but her family had moved out to the countryside and their locality had never been troubled by bombing or anything else which might have caused her phobia . |
| 9 | Chuck glanced around inquiringly at Jacques Devraux , who had moved out into the plain with his son and Flavia Sherman . |
| 10 | Ramsey had moved out of the Barthian influence which via Hoskyns attracted him during the earlier 1930s . |
| 11 | One evening in their local pub , the Dog & Rabbit , an old gentleman who had moved out of the district on retirement , returned to visit his daughter who lived in the area . |
| 12 | Additionally , the Hammer community was in the process of housing redevelopment , and many in-group members had moved out of the immediate area . |
| 13 | Both of these points of contention were symptomatic of the fundamental issue at stake for Washington , which was that it had lost control of events in Cuba and a client state which had been regarded virtually as a part of the American mainland had moved out of the US orbit . |
| 14 | She wanted to avoid Oliver , although she was desperate to know that he had moved out of the flat . |
| 15 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 16 | Was that why she had moved out of the Wilson family home ? |
| 17 | Those people whose families had moved out from the inner areas still retained some ties with relatives in the inner city , but clearly such ties are by definition weaker in quality than ties with immediate neighbours , and they were dismissed as relatively weak in our inner-city network analysis . |
| 18 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 19 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 20 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 21 | Er they do after , yes th the , the nationalists had moved back across the south after nineteen forty five erm th th they 'd , they 'd retreated from the Japanese progressively after nineteen forty one and abandoned Shanghai and etcetera . |
| 22 | Frye had moved back to the windows again , to watch Duvall and Pearce battling their way through the storm to the car wreck . |
| 23 | ‘ Grandstand ’ had moved back to the cricket but Harry Carpenter had promised viewers that they would return to Sandwich for the finale of ‘ this extraordinary golfing drama ’ . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | Neighbours were concerned because a daughter with a psychiatric history , marital difficulties and debts , had moved in with the old couple . |
| 26 | When the corporation took control , all the families living there had moved in from the city area . |
| 27 | Duncan lay still , confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south . |
| 28 | They had moved in from the garden during a cold spell in November . |
| 29 | From the dry-out farm , Tunney had moved down to the border , mooched around in cantinas for a while , then left the country two steps ahead of the sheriff of some Rio Grande jerkwater . |
| 30 | The derelict gardens were rescued by Davyd , who had moved down from the mountains of Wales to the plains of East Anglia , but remained very Welsh , his accent giving authority to everything he said . |