Example sentences of "move [adv prt] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 2 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |
| 3 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |
| 4 | A minute later Payton moved on to a sloppy Jobling pass and shot into the side netting as fans jumped to their feet in anticipation of a goal . |
| 5 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 6 | ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’ |
| 7 | There was no room with Jimmy and Sean , and Marcus and Pete moved on to a different table . |
| 8 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 9 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 10 | Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade . |
| 11 | A couple of determined tries from Gabriel , a solidly-built scrum-half , put them 10 points clear , before Finnie , with one conversion and three late penalties moved on to a personal total of 17 . |
| 12 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 13 | Nikos 's thoughts moved on to a different tack . |
| 14 | The patient was moved on to a life-support machine and another set of X-rays was ordered in case the first ones had not revealed internal injuries caused by the car accident . |
| 15 | After serving a further 20 per cent of their sentence in a semi-open regime , inmates are moved on to an open system ; |
| 16 | MORE than 500 Chinese who wanted to be smuggled into the United States have been moved on to an American base in the Marshall Islands after a six-week voyage from Hong Kong , the US Coast Guard said yesterday . |
| 17 | Imagine you have just moved in to a new flat . |
| 18 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 19 | Money-Go-Round : Moving on to a new mortgage |
| 20 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 21 | Moving on to a major NBC station WHO in Des Moines , Iowa , Reagan , during the next four years , acquired considerable broadcasting experience . |
| 22 | It then proceeds through a concise , but remarkably comprehensive review of data gathering instruments and issues of access to respondents , before moving on to a brief consideration of data analysis and the process of writing up work to enable others to benefit from it . |
| 23 | Colman 's wartime and postwar work before the camera was less distinguished , though he did win an Oscar in 1947 for an uncharacteristically highly charged dramatic role in A Double Life before moving on to a lucrative second career in American radio and television , playing the professor in Halls of Ivy ( 1950–2 ) , a series he also produced and owned . |
| 24 | Nonetheless , one can get some useful mileage out of the 1960s surveys , before moving on to an historical account . |
| 25 | If you 've been here long enough , you can move on to a progressive prison ; to a C cat , or even D cat . |
| 26 | Once you have an exact description of the job then you can move on to an accurate description of the ideal candidate to do it . |
| 27 | The procedure thus adopted is one of first checking the spatial relationships in the orthogonal reference space and , if not as desired , moving down to a local containing domain before the uncertainty is reported . |
| 28 | Another is to reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject , either by shifting to a more suitable setting or by moving in to a bigger close-up so that the dark background is reduced in size . |
| 29 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 30 | DOS users know what they 're doing , have invested a lot of time and effort in learning how to do it , and do n't want the hassle of moving over to a new interface in order to do it differently . |