Example sentences of "move on [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre .
3 Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net .
4 Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ‘ 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 . ’
8 There was no room with Jimmy and Sean , and Marcus and Pete moved on to a different table .
9 She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box .
10 Ultimately Childebert and Guntram patched up their quarrel , and Chilperic moved on to the defensive , only to be murdered at Chelles in 584 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 So Wolfgang and his mother moved on to the spacious , elegant town on the Rhine that had been the seat of the Elector Palatine since 1720 .
16 A Democrat , unlike his famous cousin , the Republican ex-President Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin moved on to the national political scene as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Woodrow Wilson 's administration in 1913 .
17 She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped .
18 They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family .
19 No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next
20 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 .
21 Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow .
22 The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat .
23 If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter .
24 It was non-stop activity as one event moved on to the next , together with a feast of fizzy drinks , buckets of ice cream , crisps and many balloons .
25 Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject .
26 ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed .
27 The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping .
28 From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year .
29 Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far .
30 They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life .
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