Example sentences of "move [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " 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 ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed .
3 Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject .
4 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 .
5 The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat .
6 Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow .
7 If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter .
8 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 .
9 On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee .
10 We therefore moved over to the second limb of the permanency strategy , the strategy of placement in substitute new families preferably for adoption .
11 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 .
12 Indoor bowls : Visit Clacton-on-Sea is the advice being offered to the selectors of county bowls teams in Essex following the indoor club 's latest success over strong opposition.The seasiders moved through to the third round of the London Southern Counties Shield with a 76–67 victory over Essex County , secured largely through the efforts of Ron Marrable 's rink .
13 The drummer gave a few bangs on his big drum , the accordionist struck up a lively tune and the procession moved off to the first house .
14 Hull moved out of the Second Division relegation zone for the first time since mid-September with a 2-1 win over Plymouth last night — their fourth win in their last six games and their third successive victory under the new manager Stan Ternant .
15 But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century .
16 The Founders moved on to the next question .
17 And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis .
18 This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock .
19 The window is then moved along to the next position .
20 The company 's Austin , Texas-based Microprocessor and Memory Technologies Group Monday has now moved up to the first 32-bit version of the multiprotocol communications engine derived from the 68000 .
21 Harris Corp 's Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based Computer Systems Division has moved up to the second generation 88110 version of Motorola Inc 's RISC family with the Night Hawk 5000 series — which ca n't be called Night Hawk in the UK .
22 Grindingly backward , it 's hardly moved out of the 19th century .
23 ‘ I 've only five horses here at the moment , ’ Tom said moving on to the first loose-box .
24 Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation .
25 These characteristics lead to a generally well-controlled and efficient method of production , whose main disadvantage is the time-delay caused by the queueing effect of individual units waiting for the batch to be completed before moving on to the next operation .
26 Students should therefore be encouraged to debate the issues before moving on to the next question .
27 Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime .
28 Before moving on to the next section , it is perhaps worth pointing out that the analysis just presented also allows us to handle certain uses related to the infinitive of reaction where the nexus between the infinitive and the main clause is much looser than in the canonical cases discussed above in ( 11 ) — ( 16 ) : ( 28 ) I was stunned , to see him lose .
29 The questions at the end of each chapter have been designed to assist students to test that the reading has been understood before moving on to the next chapter .
30 The 3-Colour pattern option operates in much the same way except that it knits colour one , colour two , colour three and colour four before moving on to the next pattern line .
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