Example sentences of "move on [prep] the [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 | Ultimately Childebert and Guntram patched up their quarrel , and Chilperic moved on to the defensive , only to be murdered at Chelles in 584 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 10 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 11 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 14 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 15 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 18 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 19 | The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping . |
| 20 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 21 | Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far . |
| 22 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 25 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 26 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 27 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 28 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 29 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 30 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |