Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 2 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 3 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 4 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 5 | Following the graduation ceremonies and Convocation Ball on that first Friday of May , 1929 , my father and I drove back from Saskatoon to Moose Jaw on Saturday . |
| 6 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 7 | ‘ I went straight from school to the Inland Revenue , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Apart from the measly sums she doled out from time to time , the allowance was Benedict 's by right , for it was left in trust for him by her husband . |
| 9 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 10 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 11 | He went to the site of her cage , ant grasping its bars firmly in his talons he quietly watched her as she raced frantically from corner to far corner of her cage . |
| 12 | It may just be a question of getting up ten minutes earlier in the morning or taking ten minutes when you get in from work to be alone and to reflect and relax . |
| 13 | She glanced quickly from side to side . |
| 14 | Does she go there from time to time ? |
| 15 | She looked desperately from Bob to Mrs. Hennessy and back again . |
| 16 | These rows between the rib and the main fabric will eliminate the row of little holes which appear if you go straight from rib to main fabric . |
| 17 | Between ourselves , it was one of those handjobs where you go straight from limpness to orgasm , skipping the hard-on stage . |
| 18 | For the time being , notice that on two occasions , Carol interrupts the flow of her own talk , trying to remember when a particular event took place — and on both occasions her self-interruption is in LE , interrupting a Creole sequence : Thus Carol 's talk in this conversation can be analysed as making use of two distinct codes , " Creole " and " English " , between which she moves systematically from time to time . |
| 19 | She had already from time to time employed Mrs Rafferty , although the incredibly swift rate of her pregnancies made her appearances at Four Winds unpredictable . |
| 20 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 21 | We sailed together from Berbera to Aden in HMS Minto . |
| 22 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 23 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 24 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 25 | Your two crystals grow visibly : they break up from time to time and the pieces also grow . |
| 26 | They have been revised over time — usually downwards — and they vary significantly from country to country . |
| 27 | You know they measure across from heel to toe |
| 28 | For one thing , they varied enormously from place to place ( e.g. the distinctions between the policies of the colonial administrations of Kenya and neighbouring Uganda , Brett 1973 ; Leys 1975 ) , and between Anglophone and Francophone Africa . |
| 29 | Then there were Heather and Katie , inseparable friends , who bolstered each other by their mutual devotion ; never had they known a Moment 's shame of friendlessness , never had they had to look for a partner in dancing or in gym , never had they walked alone from classroom to classroom , and their confidence overflowed and imposed itself upon all beholders . |
| 30 | They went around from house to house demanding the licensing fee . |