Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 5 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 8 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 11 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 12 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | But there was no point in talking to Victoria , who had forgotten anywhere else because she lived from day to day . |
| 18 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 19 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 20 | It was a I was gon na ask you you know , wh when you moved from shunter to foreman , you had responsibilities for a lot a lot besides the shunting . |
| 21 | She was filled with an overwhelming sense of loss as she wandered from tree to tree , recognising many , feeling herself accused : she had overstayed her welcome in the world . |
| 22 | The house seemed to put comforting arms around her , as she wandered from room to room . |
| 23 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 24 | ‘ How frightful , ’ she murmured from time to time , as Mrs. Mounce catalogued another misfortune , another misunderstanding . |
| 25 | She brought her hands to her waist and , keeping her elbows out , pushed one forward then the other , as she twisted from side to side ; her face alight , she directed her radiance at the audience , finishing with the invitation , that issued from her lips as a command : |
| 26 | When she turned from painting to writing , she added to these gifts and to this training , two principles which might well be carved above the entrance door of every School of Journalism . |
| 27 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 28 | Alexei offered a hand to her , and when she took it he stood , meeting her gaze steadily , while she stepped from slipper to boot first with one foot , and then with the other . |
| 29 | As she said it she grinned from ear to ear , physically contorted by her joy into a sort of bow , arms out stiff behind her like someone about to fly . |
| 30 | Claudia gritted her teeth together , groaning as she blushed from head to foot . |