Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Left with no one with whom he could discuss the farm-work and stock when the day 's toil was over , Jonadab became more and more morose , spending most evenings staring into the fire or wandering from building to building , checking his animals . |
| 2 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 3 | And now she seemed to be planning a new use for those skills as I watched her gaze , fixed on Boy , or shifting from O to Boy . |
| 4 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 5 | Harry demonstrated their strength by whipping off his shoes and walking from root to tip with neither give or wrinkling . |
| 6 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 7 | There was also a large cat , which was sitting on a chair and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 8 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
| 9 | The questions of theory and of hypothesis seemed wrong now , and looking from face to face , he wondered how much good the answers would do him . |
| 10 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 11 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 12 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 13 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 14 | All patient areas require alteration , decoration and cleaning from time to time . |
| 15 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 16 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 17 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 18 | TEN years on and going from strength to strength … |
| 19 | Mrs Chalmers is standing beside me , tutting and shifting from foot to foot — she has varicose veins , and does not like standing , which is why she always sits down to sort the bulbs . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , you know , ’ said the demon cautiously , glancing around nervously and shifting from claw to claw . |
| 21 | As a member of the National Trust for Scotland for nearly 58 years , and having from time to time been involved in its affairs , I want to add my personal support to Douglas Connell 's proposition ( Points of View , 15 March ) that the functions of the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( in so far as they relate to Scotland ) should in future be carried out by a new body established in Scotland . |
| 22 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 23 | Paul had great fun running and jumping from rock to rock and throwing stones into pools between the rocks . |
| 24 | And staggering from seminar to seminar during the day , you encountered enough bullshit and banter to last several lifetimes . |
| 25 | Suddenly , he was crouching down behind it , still hanging on , but weaving from side to side . |
| 26 | tug arrived , and the poor wreck had been towed away , still under water , but surfacing from time to time as though she had still not quite admitted defeat . |