Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | My arm was beginning to hurt pretty badly , so I decided to pull my chute straight away in case I fainted from loss of blood . |
| 3 | Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot . |
| 4 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 5 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 6 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 7 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 8 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 9 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 10 | I ached from head to toe and the wound in my throat , inflamed by the cold , created a circle of pain around my neck and shoulders . |
| 11 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 12 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 13 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 14 | Janice Flook ( Mrs Boniface ) writes ‘ after a varied career during which I migrated from chemistry to computing to telecommunications , I am now enjoying the early years of our son Keith who was born last year . |
| 15 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 16 | At Magdalen Bridge , Dennis went ashore for more champagne , which passed from hand to hand as we negotiated the lower reaches of the river . |
| 17 | The firm had developed novel parallel processing software which worked like a ‘ worm ’ , spawning segments which moved from processor to processor . |
| 18 | In fact , the behaviour of the janissaries bred a smouldering resentment which erupted from time to time into acts of armed resistance . |
| 19 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 20 | She was somebody who had mild short-term memory loss , which varied from day to day but she could remember anything about the past . |
| 21 | One response to this and the funding crisis in the early 1980s was to introduce charges for the home help service , up to a weekly maximum , which varied from authority to authority , but was in the region of £2 . |
| 22 | The lights in the ceiling came on without fuss and illuminated the ancient brick walls and the weathered old grey beams which crossed from side to side , holding up the planks of the floor above : holding up the planks , except where the hole was . |
| 23 | This had then opened up what Schweitzer described as the ‘ psychologising ’ approach to Jesus , which set out to explore his understanding of himself , tracing his awareness of God , his key ideas , even the development of his teaching through the career which ran from Galilee to Golgotha . |
| 24 | Sometimes Dad was on the Number 23 route , which ran from Bruntsfield to Goldenacre , passing our home . |
| 25 | Nenna felt tired , and sat down on the keelson , which ran from end to end of the flat-bottomed barge . |
| 26 | What really drew my attention , however , was the ugly , purple-red gash which ran from ear to ear . |
| 27 | An indicator of popular views of Party leaders can be seen in the wild rumours which circulated from time to time about prominent figures in the NSDAP . |
| 28 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 29 | Victory went to James Leckey , who led from start to finish , but Emerson 's solid second place allied to the retirement of his two main championship rivals , was enough to take the Belfast driver clear at the top of the table . |
| 30 | The rally was won outright by flying Scot Colin McRae , who led from start to finish in his Subaru Legacy . |