Example sentences of "[pron] go from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If I go from hero to bum , so be it . ’
2 Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water .
3 I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room .
4 Pains which go from left to right .
5 ‘ Jim has been patching players up to keep them going from week to week .
6 Is Klima , as the angry friend alleges on this occasion , a flirt , who goes from girl to girl ?
7 Back to his best Billy Lancaster , who goes from strength to strength each season , beat the talented Mark Jones , last year 's runner-up , by 21–16 , while Bob Severs was at his best to beat Michael Ryan 21–7 .
8 Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all .
9 At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol .
10 How do we know that the laws of nature are not really like laws of a game of chess , but played on a chess board where the laws change as you go from place to place on the chess board , which is a very more complicated situation than an ordinary chess game where the laws are the same no matter where the pieces are .
11 Otherwise , she went from firm to firm , wherever there was work , and usually managed to find some .
12 She went from person to person , taking care to avoid Uncle Lionel .
13 She went from room to room , praising the decor , and if she noticed the paintings they did n't appear to do her any obvious mischief .
14 The only thing that changes is our bodily condition , soul comes into the body and we go from birth to death , and how I look at it is that death is like taking your suit off .
15 For a week we went from door to door , saying goodbye to all the families we considered as our own because we had lived among them so long .
16 We went from house to house , passing White Memorial Hospital , whose waiting room had been shot up when one gang went to kill the wounded members of another .
17 We went from city to city , from bush town to bush town , civic reception after civic reception given by local mayors with chains around their necks , musical welcomes with God Save the King and For They Are Jolly Good Fellows , and Plum Warner uttering platitude after platitude about the ideals of cricket and British fair-play , until the subject became uncomfortable and undiplomatic .
18 And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time .
19 Anyway , to get back to our story ; over the years we went from strength to strength , moving to a rented warehouse and then four years ago my husband bought an old cinema .
20 They went from house to house checking all night long .
21 yeah , but it goes from computer to computer , but summat 's gone wrong ai n't it ? , somewhere along the line , they 've rang the bank themselves maybe he did n't believe your dad or not I do n't know , she got back to him , she says , we 've rang your bank and they were very helpful , they saw it so what you have to do is ring Blackpool , she says as so as soon as Blackpool ring back , she 'll ring
22 It goes from alpha to omega , beginning Alpha , beta , gamma , delta .
23 It goes from side to side , stopping at every landing point so you 'll have a good — and cheap — view of all the buildings along the canal . ’
24 Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room .
25 After that he went from chamber to chamber , from corridor to corridor , looking for other canvases which might fit the verse from the Apocalypse .
26 And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more .
27 Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last .
28 Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood .
29 He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class .
30 First , like a thief casing the joint , he went from room to room again and made a mental inventory of his disposable assets .
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