Example sentences of "moved [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like an all-night performance of Balinese gamelan or a Central African cult ceremony , the music moved through dusk until dawn . |
| 2 | Tanks and small army units moved into position in front of key government and communications buildings in Algiers and other towns . |
| 3 | The Bolsheviks , on the insistent urging of Lenin , moved with caution in relation to nationalisation during this period . |
| 4 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Heavy freight would be moved from road to rail to make roads and villages safer . |
| 8 | The CAA 's Central Library has moved from Kingsway to Aviation House at Gatwick , where it is open for reference and sale of CAA publications from 0930–1630 Monday to Friday . |
| 9 | It 's author , John Godber , told me that working out how to stage the ski , the scenes on the slopes had been quite a headache for them , particularly as the set of course , has to be constantly moved from theatre from theatre as it tours round the country . |
| 10 | Like an out-take from Falcon Crest , Souness and his wife moved from villa to mansion and back again , but his incurable obsession with football ultimately led to divorce and to a painful separation which distanced Souness from his children . |
| 11 | The party moved from church to house . |
| 12 | Alternatively cards may be moved from pile to pile if they match the suit of the card underneath and have a lower face value . |
| 13 | ‘ The records were being altered , a new accounting system was being introduced and key people were moved from positions of authority . |
| 14 | Arrested and interned by the Germans , Adair was eventually moved from Bayonne to Fresne . |
| 15 | In some systems one crane serves more than one aisle and in this case is moved from aisle to aisle by an automatic transfer system . |
| 16 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 17 | Thus the Long Gilt suffered a mild setback in 1988 and 1989 as the public sector finances moved from deficit to surplus and the Treasury instituted a " buy-back " programme for long-dated gilts . |
| 18 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 19 | Bombed out of one small premises , Grandpa had moved from factory to factory , finally ending up in what was now Belmodes . |
| 20 | The 400 joule answer is correct if the load is moved from floor to floor , or the man always holds the load and moves from floor to floor . |
| 21 | Michael Howard , another standard-bearer for the Right , was moved from Employment to Environment , the largest Whitehall department . |
| 22 | Or have we moved from minor to major ? |
| 23 | The fountain erected in memory of Dr John Fothergill , founding member of the Darlington Temperance Society was moved from Bondgate to South Park in 1875 . |
| 24 | In other words , how many bytes of data per second are moved from disk to memory . |
| 25 | ‘ In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground within a wall , wherein are fertile meddowes , pleasant springs , delightful streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the midst thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure , which may be moved from place to place . |
| 26 | Apart from needing internal return pipes of different lengths , the lid and powerhead could then just be moved from jar to jar . |
| 27 | In the space of only two weeks , the Slovak lawyer has moved from dissident to defendant to government minister . |
| 28 | Squash at Harlow Sportcentre has moved from strength to strength , starting with just two courts when the centre first opened . |
| 29 | In effect , the intellectual centre of gravity slowly moved from parties to pressure groups and a new theory emerged that quickly gained wide acceptance . |
| 30 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |