Example sentences of "[pers pn] went from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 2 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 3 | Otherwise , she went from firm to firm , wherever there was work , and usually managed to find some . |
| 4 | She went from person to person , taking care to avoid Uncle Lionel . |
| 5 | She went from room to room , praising the decor , and if she noticed the paintings they did n't appear to do her any obvious mischief . |
| 6 | For a week we went from door to door , saying goodbye to all the families we considered as our own because we had lived among them so long . |
| 7 | We went from house to house , passing White Memorial Hospital , whose waiting room had been shot up when one gang went to kill the wounded members of another . |
| 8 | We went from city to city , from bush town to bush town , civic reception after civic reception given by local mayors with chains around their necks , musical welcomes with God Save the King and For They Are Jolly Good Fellows , and Plum Warner uttering platitude after platitude about the ideals of cricket and British fair-play , until the subject became uncomfortable and undiplomatic . |
| 9 | And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time . |
| 10 | Anyway , to get back to our story ; over the years we went from strength to strength , moving to a rented warehouse and then four years ago my husband bought an old cinema . |
| 11 | They went from house to house checking all night long . |
| 12 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 13 | After that he went from chamber to chamber , from corridor to corridor , looking for other canvases which might fit the verse from the Apocalypse . |
| 14 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 15 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 16 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 17 | He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class . |
| 18 | First , like a thief casing the joint , he went from room to room again and made a mental inventory of his disposable assets . |
| 19 | The mechanic watched him out of the comer of his eye as he went from car to car , making an elaborate pretence of examining the interiors . |
| 20 | Elstree now mastered in the ‘ Fury , he went from strength to strength until one day he took-off , put the wheels up and the lights would n't go out . |
| 21 | After his one and only lesson in watercolour from a visiting European called Rex Battarbee he went from strength to strength , passing on his considerable skills to four sons and various other members of an extended family . |
| 22 | He went from strength to strength , ’ Guthrie said proudly . |
| 23 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 24 | He went from house to house in certain areas of the East End of London , painstakingly recording the number of residents , the number of rooms they occupied , their living conditions , their income , diet , clothing , and so on . |
| 25 | Morgan found a two-guinea coin , and it went from hand to hand . |