Example sentences of "[pers pn] move from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I MOVE from game to game with increasing abruptness . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 5 | Or have we moved from minor to major ? |
| 6 | So we move from semantics to pragmatics , from virtual to actual meaning . |
| 7 | ‘ We move from place to place in shoals . ’ |
| 8 | We move from house to house for a glass of sherry and a chat . |
| 9 | These examples must be multicultural , if they are intended to show the universal nature of mathematics , and should also demonstrate how we move from reality to abstraction and back again . |
| 10 | That afternoon , as they moved from church to market square and strolled admiringly past rows of handsome eighteenth-century houses , greedily Robbie recorded every second , every sight , every sensation , building up a store of precious memories to take out and brood over when this time out of reality — as it must — came to an end . |
| 11 | They moved from cover to cover within the compound , advancing towards the rear of the battle , following the sounds that would lead them to their own side and to news of the day 's progress . |
| 12 | Much of this mobility was accounted for by adolescent farm servants who regularly changed jobs every year ; they moved from farm to farm regardless of parish boundaries but rarely went very far . |
| 13 | The Conservative philosophy fitted , so they moved from Labour to Conservative . ’ |
| 14 | It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design . |
| 15 | The working poor 's main problem is the poverty trap — the tax penalty that poor families face when they move from welfare to work . |
| 16 | With the way jobs are going it 's harder to keep members as they move from job to job . |
| 17 | The two of them move from room to room and stand there nodding in apparent admiration of Tod 's handiwork . |
| 18 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 19 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 20 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 21 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 22 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 23 | He moves from transport to employment , swapping jobs with Frank Dobson . |
| 24 | I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning . |
| 25 | The British Government still regards renewable energy as the Cinderella option , particularly when it moves from research to commercial options . |
| 26 | Honey bees , for example , regularly use the Sun as their compass , compensating for its changing azimuth as it moves from east to west . |
| 27 | The result would be a diagram which becomes ever more precise and explicit as it moves from left to right , with a long list of fairly narrowly defined functions on the right-hand side . |
| 28 | It moves from department to department in a pre-arranged sequence like the baton in a relay race . |
| 29 | Now , by way of change , let us move from drama to humour . |