Example sentences of "[was/were] on [art] move " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we were on the move . |
| 2 | From Mars it must have looked as if opposing armies of ants were on the move . |
| 3 | The RAF ground crews , the unsung heroes of this time , continued to work round the clock , the air crews seemed never to be out of their aeroplanes , and the rest of us waltzed through our duties with the exhilarating feeling that at last things were on the move in the right direction . |
| 4 | Already the first two were on the move . |
| 5 | When the regiment was about to leave , the same little posse returned to the centre of the town to tell tradesmen they were on the move , and it would be in their interests to stop giving further credit immediately . |
| 6 | True , there were few creature comforts behind the wheel and few concessions from the car itself once you were on the move . |
| 7 | SHARES in the Savoy Hotel group were on the move last night , fuelled by bid talk . |
| 8 | Yet the kind of premises favoured by small-time craftsmen look as if they were not so suitable for a spot of Miscellaneous Repos ; by the October of 1856 the Titfords were on the move yet again , this time to 15 Penton Street , Clerkenwell . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Beijing students were on the move . |
| 10 | Here and there other rabbits were on the move . |
| 11 | And linnets ( ‘ with bouncy flight ’ ) were on the move , flying to the end of the Point . |
| 12 | Trees and hedges were torn up , red-brick or gritstone streets , short and straight , multiplied every year , even before the age of steam : Sheffield , Birmingham , Liverpool , Manchester , all were on the move . |
| 13 | I felt my spirits lifting even more ; things were on the move at last . |
| 14 | A hurried tea and they were on the move again . |
| 15 | While the radicals had toyed with revolution , and while the underground had played with toys , workers were on the move , and in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | Everyone here seemed busy and it was apparent that the few gipsies still remaining in this part of the forest were on the move . |
| 17 | I understand from British Rail that the impact was less severe than it might have been , since both trains were on the move at the time , but some 90 passengers and the driver of the Portsmouth train were injured . |
| 18 | " Well , we were on the move most of the time . " |
| 19 | Michael Yule was prominent on the left wing for Jed while Parker and Shiel were always in the thick of the action when Melrose were on the move . |
| 20 | He was on the move again , whether he had annoyed the proprietor at his cheap hotel by his late night rowdiness , or quarrelled with one of the pimps because the girls staying there posed for him free or simply grown tired of the place , is not clear . |
| 21 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 22 | The great cavalcade was on the move . |
| 23 | The whole crowd was on the move : one could get no length of view . |
| 24 | ‘ Immediately after the marathon it was local election time and I was on the move constantly . |
| 25 | For thirty years after his marriage Benjamin hardly let his feet touch the ground before he was on the move again — giving us over a dozen different addresses for him during his lifetime . |
| 26 | TOMMY STEELE , the first Brit rocker , was doing the business in London , but across the pond , something far more disgusting and mercurial was on the move . |
| 27 | The baggage was on the move . |
| 28 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 29 | Similar formality was observed when the court was on the move . |
| 30 | Out of the corner of her eye , she saw that Richard Blake was on the move again , and inwardly she groaned . |