Example sentences of "moved on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy .
2 His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before .
3 Police moved on to a housing estate in St Mellons , Cardiff , after a five-day surveillance operation .
4 While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe .
5 This committee was composed of representatives of producers , employees and consumers ; it too , however , could not be much of a check on High Authority action if the two bodies moved on to a collision course — something , in fact , which never occurred .
6 Starting from the simplest and most chaste of forms , rooted in a combination of pioneering vernacular and colonial buildings , the American station swiftly moved on to a riot of revivalist and hybrid styles in a complex process of architectural grafting which mirrored the increasingly diverse origins of its immigrant population .
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