Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | For another , many of the genes carried by plasmids — such as those specifying resistance to the antibiotics kanamycin or penicillin — are flanked by special DNA which enables them to jump from plasmid to chromosome and back , or from one plasmid to another . |
| 3 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 4 | Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 7 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 8 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 11 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 12 | In past-life regression will I progress from childhood to adulthood ? |
| 13 | I flit from flower to flower , and I pick up different things from different flowers . ’ |
| 14 | I suppose from day to day Constanza always did pretty well what she pleased , but Anna was always there . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 17 | If I go from hero to bum , so be it . ’ |
| 18 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 19 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 20 | We certainly have not ceased erm to undertake educational work and erm I do from time to time er do a number of reports on that work for er our funding bodies and er recently I 've done a report requested by Northern Arts , for the Arts Council I believe . |
| 21 | Mr Beveridge told my colleague Bryan Rostron : ‘ I think from time to time one is brought in for overseas work in parts of the world where the old English system of justice still applies . |
| 22 | I think from time to time , little bits of the Government do work reasonably well , and do respond reasonably well to county council and local authority initiatives , and although I could n't pretend that a hundred and , that twenty- five thousand pounds is going to solve the unemployment problem in Wiltshire , nor indeed solve the problem being created by the run- down of defence industry , nevertheless , I think credit should be given where credit 's due . |
| 23 | I MOVE from game to game with increasing abruptness . |
| 24 | Ludo and I shuffle from pub to pub , table to table , like the Salvation Army rattling tins . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | With intent to make the Love of Gardening more general , and the understanding of it more easy , I have from time to time published Catalogues , containing large Variety of Trees , Plants , Fruits , and Flowers , both Foreign and Domestic , cultivated by me for Sale . ’ |
| 27 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 28 | To be specific about it , many of the Christian circles that I enter from time to time do not believe in the Devil . |
| 29 | When I discover from time to time this tiny book tucked away in my bookcases , I happily peruse it again and always find something , perhaps unnoticed before , which leads me into deeper and more silent meditation . |
| 30 | 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 . |