'V n (Material)' - Construction 22

Name: the move someone along construction
Description: A person or entity makes someone do something.
Verbs: e.g. attract, call, draw, force, push, use, work, move along, pull in, pull up, talk down, throw out, turn back, turn out
Example: A uniformed policeman …occasionally moved people along… (BNC)
Membership: Actor affects something; make a change; cause action
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Causation. Roles: NP1: Cause; NP2: Affected
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