Example sentences of "moving [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 2 | The marble-floored hall was almost deserted now , just two couples moving slowly under the glitterball light . |
| 3 | Half-way along the path , surrounded by shouting , running firemen , was a little , dark group , moving slowly towards the road . |
| 4 | The Trunchbull had returned to her place in front of the class , and her diabolical gaze was moving slowly along the rows of tiny pupils . |
| 5 | The vines spread away on both sides of her , and she could see people working among them , moving slowly along the ranks of greenery . |
| 6 | Soon the car was moving slowly through the snowy streets of the town . |
| 7 | Moving slowly through the picture-postcard scenery of the Inside Passage is the perfect opportunity to relax and spot eagles , whales and porpoises . |
| 8 | One day , with me clinging to you — what rapture ! — on the pillion , we made a trip to Zamora , a small medieval city to the north of Salamanca. ft was one of those heavenly , crisp autumn days , all sunny chills and skies of broken clouds whose grotesque shadows went moving slowly over the bare brown earth of the fields and hills . |
| 9 | Someone was moving slowly across the tufted grass . |
| 10 | Glaciers or vast sheets of ice were moving slowly across the lowlands , just 20 000 years ago , at a time when there were only a few primitive humans living in caves in southern Britain . |
| 11 | After a moment he spotted Jordan , sitting on his tractor , moving slowly across the sky-line , silhouetted against the setting sun . |
| 12 | A thick dark blanket of cloud with torn ragged edges was moving slowly across the sky . |
| 13 | ‘ Why do n't you sit down , Laura ? ’ he said , moving slowly across the carpet towards her . |
| 14 | They had raised themselves but still remained crouched , and were moving slowly by the hedge towards the tree , when once again Martin 's attention was brought round to the strip of woodland , not by a noise this time , but by a strange feeling of impending danger . |
| 15 | He could hear the faint sounds of footsteps and , straining his eyes , saw a figure moving slowly in the distance . |
| 16 | Ignore personal attacks and criticism by thanking the opposition for their feedback and then moving on with the positive aspects of your case . |
| 17 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 18 | By the inter-war years such Sikh artisans had a number of Kenyan assistants adopting their skills ; by the 1950s the Sikhs were moving on to the role of investor and entrepreneur in both construction and industry , leaving the way clear for their former assistants to take on the role of artisan . |
| 19 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 20 | Planning should begin with an analysis of the present position taking account of both internal and external factors and a forecast of future developments , moving on to the definition of broad aims . |
| 21 | Drinking off the last of the wine and moving on to the coffee he finally managed to confront himself with the question of why he had been so slow to begin . |
| 22 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 23 | The eyes of the slow reader will stop on each word before moving on to the next one . |
| 24 | SPAR processed stories sentence by sentence , resolving the ambiguities in each sentence , integrating the information in them into context , and outputting a paraphrase of the sentence , before moving on to the next one . |
| 25 | On the 29th of this month , Yan-Pascal Tortelier will be giving his farewell concert as Music Director of the Ulster Orchestra in the Usher Hall , before officially moving on to the BBC Philharmonic ( see above ) . |
| 26 | More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky . |
| 27 | If so , you need to change those beliefs before moving on to the next step . |
| 28 | Moving on to the subject of domestic competition , may I draw your attention to a missing tournament . |
| 29 | He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity . |
| 30 | There are two ways of arranging the designs , either working on each one at the same time , or completing one before moving on to the other . |