Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot . |
| 2 | Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant . |
| 3 | We watched as Christopher 's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal 's fur . |
| 4 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 5 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 6 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 7 | As the flow of water changed rapidly from summer to winter the streams and rivers deposited their loads again , leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand in some places and fine mud in other places . |
| 8 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 9 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 10 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 11 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a disaster to adopt a policy that changed almost from hour to hour under Labour , with no constancy or purpose of any sort ? |
| 13 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 14 | Does ‘ read ’ mean ‘ studied assiduously from cover to cover ’ or ‘ borrowed to look at one or two chapters ’ or ‘ glanced at in a library ’ ? |
| 15 | Holly turned slowly from left to right , gazed and absorbed . |
| 16 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 17 | The Collector 's mind had wandered yet again , though he nodded intelligently from time to time , hoping thus to soothe the Padre . |
| 18 | The yellow-jacketed policeman shuffled uneasily from foot to foot , uncertain of what they should be doing now . |
| 19 | In the raging gloom no-one appeared to notice a shadowy shape that shuffled desperately from table to table . |
| 20 | She glanced quickly from side to side . |
| 21 | ‘ Of … of his- ’ Her dark head swung now from side to side before she muttered , ‘ feelings , possessiveness . |
| 22 | One contained a great still lake , and they crossed it along a rock-bridge that sprang dizzily from wall to wall . |
| 23 | The entire class took off in pursuit of the frog as it sprang nimbly from bench to bench . |
| 24 | Leave the front carriages set to knit and knit slowly from right to left . |
| 25 | As might be expected , comment varied widely from workshop to workshop and ranged across issues such as the exact interpretation of the wording of tasks , time allocated to tasks , value of tasks , applicability of generic examples to participants ' own specialities and many others . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that this conclusion was reached on the basis of urban evidence , for it is likely that the degree of sex segregation or jointness of marital relationships varied widely from region to region . |
| 27 | Provision of piped water and sanitary facilities varied widely from region to region and between different types of housing . |
| 28 | The details of its internal structure varied somewhat from time to time , but the main lines remained fairly stable . |
| 29 | Lexical and grammatical forms often entered in from Creole sources , although which forms , where they appeared , and how frequently , varied greatly from speaker to speaker . |
| 30 | The level of staff involvement varied greatly from school to school . |