Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from one [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never had his mind worked so fast or so clearly , leaping on from one conclusion to the next , some exhilarating , some appalling . |
| 2 | You were sort of dallying about from one foot to the other . |
| 3 | They suggested the reasons were trying to find out who was speaking and looking quickly from one person to another with rising anxiety . |
| 4 | He stood for a few moments thinking , and looking apprehensively from one stallion to the other . |
| 5 | They was taken before , I was five , across , we move , he moved here just across the , across the road , not far only just matter going over from one side to the other and I was five there , so now I 'm sixty seven now and that before then , you see , before I was born . |
| 6 | They were n't fixed to the cabin — not while they were going across from one side to the other . |
| 7 | Rushing about from one racetrack to another , always on planes or trains . |
| 8 | Leonora had started to weep , and Dom Alfonso was looking sheepish , shifting uneasily from one foot to another . |
| 9 | She felt nothing very much , except the sense of moving inexorably from one moment to the next , and accepting what each brought . |
| 10 | Twitchers are simply moving easily from one bait to another ; sucking , blowing , tasting as they go . |
| 11 | He got up and moved about the room , picking up ornaments and moving restlessly from one side to the other . |
| 12 | A scrawny boy , his hand wrapped up in a bloodstained rag , his clothes caked in mud , who looked sicker than some of her patients , and the pale , sullen girl who stood over by the teatrolley , shifting awkwardly from one foot to the other and looking as if she did n't have a brain in her head . |
| 13 | Seeing that the Annamese would otherwise be left abandoned , he remained beside them , shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another , searching his mind frantically for something to say . |
| 14 | ‘ Thus skidding violently from one side to the other , his youth approached the moment at which he would begin to be a person . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The police , ’ moaned Mr Multhrop , mind flitting wearily from one problem to another . |
| 16 | He never looked at her and she had the feeling that she should be hopping about from one foot to the next , ready to beg . |
| 17 | The abiding impression of eighties government is of a woman going briskly about her business , handbag over one arm , bustling off from one meeting to another , impatient at others ' need for rest or reflection . |
| 18 | You imagined you 'd found a less arduous way of earning a living than trailing round from one audition to the next . |