Example sentences of "[v-ing] them from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says why spend millions pushing them from place to place ? |
| 2 | The miners in the colliery retreated before the flood of dark brown slurry which was advancing through the underground roads and filling them from floor to roof . |
| 3 | A change of position may help to minimise this , such as raising the head or turning them from side to side . |
| 4 | A matron chaperoned them at all times , trekking them from digs to school , on to the theatre and finally back to their digs at night , the crocodile of children walking slower as the day progressed . |
| 5 | Back home , he dreamt , he filled the whole flat with buckets of earth , even filled soup dishes and the kettle and the wineglasses with soil , and spent hours watering them and moving them carefully around every day , carrying them from room to room so that they would be struck in turn by whatever sunshine came in through the different windows at different times of the day , making sure they were kept warm . |
| 6 | They feed with their heads upside-down , sweeping them from side to side . |
| 7 | This position is complicated by the fact that society has no established customs surrounding either the step-parent role or , perhaps even more acutely , the role of the divorced parent no longer living with his or her children but visiting them from time to time . |
| 8 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 9 | Charles kept the appellants waiting , bribing them from time to time to stop them becoming too impatient ; meanwhile his younger brother Louis Duke of Anjou concentrated on building up a party in Aquitaine , winning over many of the nobility of Pèrigord , Rouergue , Quercy and the Agenais by a judicious mixture of bribes and promises . |
| 10 | Improvements at Rossendale Ski Centre ( near Manchester ) include an undermat misting system which is far more efficient than the old sprays that tended to take skiers by surprise , drenching them from head to foot . |