Example sentences of "move [adv prt] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped .
5 The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The play moved over to the other side of the field and they stopped their conversation for a moment to follow it .
10 An interesting natural experiment arose when the entire school moved over to the new pathway course in 1987 .
11 Miss Easterbrook moved over to the open notebook .
12 Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry .
13 Men in regular employment found their real wages rising and many families moved out to the new housing estates , where evidence rapidly came to light of female depression arising primarily from physical isolation .
14 It was no coincidence that Hibs were at their most dangerous after Evans had replaced Lennon and Weir moved out to the right wing .
15 She moved around to the other side of the desk .
16 He was about to apologize , remembered the microphone , then moved round to the other side of the desk and sat down .
17 Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members .
18 But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East .
19 Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ .
20 Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for .
21 Pyatt steps up BOXING : Chris Pyatt will make his middleweight debut in Norwich tonight against American Melvin Wynn with a debt of thanks to Chris Eubank and Nigel Benn , who have moved up to the 12-stone division .
22 Mr. W.S. Johnston , the Second Master and Head of English , had been appointed to the staff in 1934 , initially as Form Master of Junior B. By 1937 he too had moved up to the Senior School .
23 He and Mum were moved out to the new estate .
24 Yeah I know if you 'd have moved round to the other side that would have been in the shadow so you would n't have got those nice bright colours .
25 More often , they simply died ; the after-dinner heart attack while slumbering in one of the club 's deep leather chairs was a popular way of moving on to the great gentleman 's club in the sky .
26 Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim .
27 Many users navigate these databases with the assistance of any available controlled indexing terms ; they may even search a related database with controlled index terms first , in order to identify some documents and refine their search strategy before moving on to the natural language of the full-text databases .
28 He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity .
29 Now you can move on to the final stage of the diet .
30 Let's move on to the medium-term question and get away from the perhaps the more depressing end of this time spectrum at any rate .
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