Example sentences of "[verb] from [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 2 | Yet , although the number of officials for every 2,000 head of population rose from one in the 1750s to about four in the 1850s , the proportion was still incomparably lower than that prevailing in the West . |
| 3 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 4 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 5 | Ben , too , joined in , and Millie , looking from one to the other , smiled widely at them . |
| 6 | Suppose you have a scene in which two characters are holding a conversation , and you are covering it in separate close-ups which cut from one to the other : these shots should both be taken from camera positions which are on the same side of an imaginary line connecting the two characters together . |
| 7 | Cut from one to the other and you create opportunities for humour or drama . |
| 8 | Since the insect and the scorpion are 30 genetic units distant from one another , it takes only 30 generations to evolve from one to the other if you never take a wrong turning ; if , that is , you know exactly what genetic formula you are heading towards , and how to steer towards it . |
| 9 | When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again . |
| 10 | I would love to hear from anyone in the same situation . |
| 11 | On the flickering screen just to the right , light suddenly reflected from something in the black hole of the cell-like room . |
| 12 | Rachel took a deep breath and glanced from one to the other then over her shoulder at the closed door of her sister 's ground-floor bedroom . |
| 13 | Well , erm , there is a cost involved in moving from , physically moving from one to the other , and also when you have to weigh up er , costs of moving your family or the risks involved and things like that , so that 's all involved in that . |
| 14 | Backed by his men and by the many planetary troopers who were unpolluted and loyal to the governor , he had commenced his activities around a ring of other cities than the capital , moving from one to the next , destroying . |
| 15 | ‘ Our feelings flow from one to the other but ultimately , it will be Nigel 's decision if he wants to drive again next year . |
| 16 | main problem at the moment is that they want one person to deal , cos at the moment we 've got us dealing with national account and we 've got dealing with the regional account managers and sales execs dealing with the individual branches and I think things are getting lost as it goes from one to the other |
| 17 | but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths . |
| 18 | And then Wayne climbed out onto the cruiser 's deck , and they let the subject drop , and Wayne was left standing there glancing from one to the other , damned sure that something was going on here , and equally damned if he could tell what it was . |
| 19 | Tenison looked from one to the other uncertainly . |
| 20 | The man looked from one to the other , and his manner changed . |
| 21 | The man looked from one to the other — waiting . |
| 22 | India-May looked from one to the other , colour creeping up her neck . |
| 23 | Millie had come into the room carrying a tin tray , and as she put it down on the table , she looked from one to the other and said , ‘ What are you talkin' about , closed schools ? |
| 24 | She looked from one to the other , clearly terrified . |
| 25 | Julia looked from one to the other , strangely at a loss . |
| 26 | Suzie looked from one to the other , obviously enjoying her moment of glory . |
| 27 | Marguerite 's face flushed with pleasure and Claudine looked from one to the other very suspiciously . |
| 28 | She looked from one to the other , glad to have got a word in on behalf of Aunt Bertha , but it brought no softening to the inscrutable expression on Silas 's face . |
| 29 | Eddie Brady looked from one to the other and said , ‘ I think I know the one you mean . ’ |
| 30 | Frank looked from one to the other , and then , addressing himself solely to Peggy , he said , ‘ You 'd better hang on to something , Peggy . |