Example sentences of "moved [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The firm had developed novel parallel processing software which worked like a ‘ worm ’ , spawning segments which moved from processor to processor . |
2 | Kitty moved from hut to hut every few years . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Last year the Government abolished the allowance that mothers who moved from benefits to work could claim . |
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 | For the first time ever the AAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham moved from ITV to Sky Television . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
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 | Italy moved from victory to victory . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | And in adulthood John moved from job to job without settling . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |