Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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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 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 She translated from Latin into Esperanto the Somerville song written in 1903 by Helen Darbishire , Margaret Moor and Margaret Robertson for the programme of Oxford songs , poems and lore .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The house seemed to put comforting arms around her , as she wandered from room to room .
24 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 .
25 She suffered from diarrhoea with pain and bloating , which had been diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome .
26 ‘ How frightful , ’ she murmured from time to time , as Mrs. Mounce catalogued another misfortune , another misunderstanding .
27 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 :
28 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 .
29 Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed .
30 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 .
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