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

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1 Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher .
2 He next moved on to the buying office , a very important department in a company such as Cadbury 's where the skilful purchase of the ingredients that go into the products can have a crucial impact on the viability of the business .
3 To Erika 's intense annoyance , Fritz promptly accepted the invitation — obeyed the command , rather — and as Rosa moved on to the floor with another boy , she was left feeling abandoned — and foolish .
4 Erika moved on to the floor , keeping the Lout at a safe distance , but he was not as loutish as his manner suggested .
5 He moved on to the ‘ enduring significance and value of the Anglo-American relationship ’ .
6 The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed .
7 He moved on to the dome , which you must imagine like the magic covers you have seen in your drawing-room under which dwell all sorts of brilliant little birds , as natural as life on their branches , or flights of mysterious moths and butterflies .
8 No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next
9 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 .
10 Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place .
11 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 .
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 After taking us through his life and times , he moved on to the matter of his death which he hoped would be quick and peaceful .
14 As the cab of the engine moved on to the bridge the engine fell through , the cab falling first , on to the car that was passing underneath .
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 Next we moved on to the ‘ enlarger ’ on the E6000 .
17 I was bored stupid by it and moved on to the marketing department of an American conglomerate .
18 The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas .
19 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 .
20 With that behind us we moved on to the interaction of language and context which defines language function ; to the possibility of establishing overall structures of discourse related to particular discourse types ; and to conversational mechanisms ( although they might also be regarded , like cohesion , as formal devices linking smaller units ) .
21 They moved on to the " Olive Pickers " .
22 The conversation moved on to the human habit of colour-mapping .
23 Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow .
24 The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat .
25 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 .
26 But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day .
27 They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family .
28 If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter .
29 She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped .
30 Eventually his father moved on to the pitch and , seizing his son by the right ear , dragged him back into a fielding position .
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