Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [v-ing] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 He found himself rocketing from desire to protectiveness in the space of seconds , and felt suddenly impatient with such irrationally see-sawing feelings .
2 Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said .
3 ‘ Jim has been patching players up to keep them going from week to week .
4 It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke .
5 ‘ Yes — but not to see her lolloping from room to room any more — ‘ .
6 It is a mild puzzle at first , to come across the young river Adour flowing from south to north down its valley , when you last saw it flowing from east to west into the ocean at Bayonne .
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