Example sentences of "move [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 2 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 3 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 4 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 5 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 7 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 8 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 9 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 10 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 11 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 12 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 13 | The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping . |
| 14 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 15 | Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far . |
| 16 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 17 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 18 | The police moved in during the first half and then at half-time as a mob of Englishmen taunted and threatened Spanish fans in Santander . |
| 19 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 20 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 21 | The Sierra Leone government promised the AfDB there would be strict environmental protection measures , but despite such assurances , loggers , farmers and charcoal-burners moved in along the new road , eating into the rainforest . |
| 22 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 23 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 24 | The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it . |
| 25 | An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987 . |
| 26 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 27 | We therefore moved over to the second limb of the permanency strategy , the strategy of placement in substitute new families preferably for adoption . |
| 28 | Miss Easterbrook moved over to the open notebook . |
| 29 | Forester checked the drawers and cupboards before he moved through into the main room . |
| 30 | COLIN STEPHENS was tackled onto the Stradey Park terraces , and out of the East v West game , as cup holders Llanelli moved through to the fifth round of the SWALEC Cup with a 54-3 win over St Albans . |