Example sentences of "moving [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There it was again , moving from grave to grave in the moonlight . |
| 2 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 3 | It was always in motion , in waves and pulses , moving from west to east in the atmosphere . |
| 4 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 5 | It would have been inconsiderate , and the possibility was not discussed , although Groa , moving from hall to hall with her husband , took the chance to pack a few extra boxes with thick clothes and blankets , and spent a little time during her last call at Orphir studying the crucifix Bishop Jon had pinned over her bed and wondering whether or not it would be Christian to pray for a wind . |
| 6 | For H2O , moving from solid to liquid to gas is a simple thing . |
| 7 | One sign of approaching winter comes from the parties of siskins feeding on catkins of birch seeds , moving from tree to tree in noisy flocks . |
| 8 | Its entrepreneurs ranged the globe and with them went the cadre of ( mostly British and Irish ) foremen , skilled workers and elite labour ; sometimes settling down in some foreign country for good , their children becoming the Anglo-Argentines of the next generation , sometimes moving from country to country like the much less numerous oilmen of our days . |
| 9 | He could not really account for what he did , moving from duty to duty like a sleep walker , so buoyed up he did n't even bother to study the stars that night , in spite of the sky being cloud free . |
| 10 | The bearing of such a burden , as one historian has recently remarked , suggests that in moving from lightweight to heavyweight in the European balance of power while simultaneously acquiring an overseas empire , Britain owed as much to her clerks and administrators as she did to her soldiers , sailors , generals and admirals . |