Example sentences of "move through " in BNC.

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1 That way they would get excellent pictures of Mrs Thatcher as she moved through the crowd .
2 The US prosecutors painted the accused as ‘ a crooked cop ’ , co-operating for $4.6 million ( £2.6 million ) with the Medellin cocaine cartel by shielding US-bound drug shipments as they moved through Panama .
3 I thought of the corruption of the North American Indians ' dress and the sullen dejection Robert Louis Stevenson had observed in the ragged groups of defeated Indians which gathered around his train as it moved through the Great Plains .
4 Always immaculately dressed , he was remembered for his invariable courtesy and charm as he moved through the hotel bars and restaurants of cosmopolitan wartime Cairo .
5 After the charter was read for the last time , the children , who had been joining the procession as it moved through the village , scrambled for new pennies thrown by the lord and lady of the manor .
6 He left his car and moved through the yellow grass , his arms clutched across his chest .
7 Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television .
8 Heavy and hoping , Lee moved through air inland towards the building she was now to walk away from .
9 SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIRGROUND
10 We moved through the town and up a hilly field covered with vines before we entered a forest where the branches grew close above the path .
11 The weather was perfect , and a small army of servants , dressed in plum coloured livery , moved through the mounted followers carrying stirrup cups borne high on silver salvers .
12 " The Unquiet Grave " , " The Grey Cock " and " She Moved Through the Fair " are just three examples of folk songs that deal with the subject .
13 It circled round her as she moved through the house and sometimes it settled in the look of pure hatred that emanated from her mother 's eyes when they rested on her .
14 The vapour of his breath feathered in a trail behind him as he moved through the cold bushes towards the stream .
15 Cardiff moved through the shadows to where Frye was crouched against the wall , next to the reception desk .
16 She moved through the gallery quickly , looking for Mahoney but unable to find him .
17 As they moved through the halls and the corridors , she felt as never before the layers upon layers of history .
18 She moved through the conical root-system of cables which formed the Bridge 's anchor , down towards the centre of the depression , and waited for the others to catch up .
19 She slithered to one side of the bed , and he moved through the gilded air , angling his body down to hers .
20 The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped .
21 The billows of cloud were gleaming as they moved through the rain , and briefly her senses lifted at the sight , but there was no instant consolation there — only , inside a crowded mind , a sudden increase of space .
22 Luke moved through a doorway that lead off from the right of the hallway and disappeared from view .
23 She moved through the crowd , dodging elbows , murmuring apologies , aware of a growing panic inside .
24 He moved through the crowd with that long , prowling stride , the aura of leashed danger about him causing other men to make way automatically .
25 ‘ With the old verbal reasoning test the questions got progressively more difficult as you moved through the paper .
26 As Iraq moved through the 1970s the Baath regime became well settled in power , with the gradual emergence in key positions of a number of individuals from the town of Tikrit on the Tigris , north of Baghdad .
27 Sometimes as she moved through the rooms and hollows of the ruin the light was yellow ; sometimes green , sometimes tinged with orange .
28 He moved through the crowd as the noise restarted .
29 He moved through the gate , taking his hat from the counter .
30 Taking her arm , he slowed his pace a little , but still he moved through the darkness with the absolute confidence of some night creature .
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