Example sentences of "were [adv] [prep] [art] move " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a leading authority on late antiquity has pointed out , ‘ merchants were constantly on the move , seeking opportunities in the underdeveloped territories of Western Europe , often settling far from their native towns ’ . |
| 2 | Later on , when wafts of sulphurous fumes from the volcano still so frequent that their chariots were constantly on the move , despite having their wheels chocked with stones . |
| 3 | Number 4 had not always been a lodging house ; just as several families , like the Titfords , were constantly on the move from place to place , so many an individual house or shop would see a very rapid turnover of occupants . |
| 4 | Some birds were already on the move , however . |
| 5 | Fisher Row was similar to some of the contemporary rural communities which have been studied in depth in that it had a stable core of local families which remained for generation after generation while another group which included carters , drovers and seasonal workers who found cheap lodgings in the parish were always on the move . |
| 6 | He moved round the room — in so far as it was possible in such cramped quarters — glad to he relieved momentarily of desk work but perhaps by way of indicating that the interview must be conducted as if we were both on the move ; and this meant that certain remarks were addressed to the window or the mantelpiece . |
| 7 | Human populations were perpetually on the move , constantly prodded by environmental changes … ’ |
| 8 | These were mainly after the move from Brighton to London . |
| 9 | The bristling pikes were indeed on the move , the whole mass shifting down the hill , the cavalry pacing slowly with them . |