Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 2 | If you want to see dazzling feats of mountaineering , with animals leaping from ledge to ledge across gaping chasms , then look to the chamois . |
| 3 | Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs , so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which , in the broad sense , can be called imitation . |
| 4 | It causes ‘ thrush ’ , which is an infection of mucous membranes occurring from time to time in young children , characterized by white patches developing in the mouth . |
| 5 | Dismayed at the pain he had inflicted and at the pain he himself felt in consequence , Richard rushed forward , then stopped a few feet from Victoria twisting from side to side in frustration , wondering how he could stop her crying . |
| 6 | I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me . |
| 7 | Harry demonstrated their strength by whipping off his shoes and walking from root to tip with neither give or wrinkling . |
| 8 | Sir John had spent a restless night , tossing from side to side in his great double bed . |
| 9 | Closing the road meant that motorists driving from Sisikon to Schwyz at the northern end of the lake — a distance of only six miles — faced a 60-mile detour . |
| 10 | It is characterised by a tightly controlled method of weaving , where a shuttle passing from side to side of the loom between the warp threads creates loop pile or fine velvet carpeting that has a high density with a very smooth regular surface . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When clubs in the lower divisions are fighting bankruptcy , living from day to day on a shoestring budget for want of funds that , to most First Division players , would be petty cash , it seems rather arrogant of Mr Taylor to be threatening strike action over sums of money and perquisites most footballers can only dream of . |
| 13 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 14 | It can soldier on , living from day to day in the hope that it can attract support from MPs in one or another minority party — there are likely to be at least 50 such members — for each piece of legislation . |
| 15 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 16 | also newcastle fans have two HUGE flags which they transport around the ground , everyone lifting the flag around — i think it 's the only english club iv'e seen doing that — you see this kind of flagging from time to time around europe ( even up here in Trondheim ) |
| 17 | Looking through the metal bars , hypnotized by the revolving wheel , he could see his own body , broken arms and legs flopping grotesquely , bouncing from girder to girder on its way down . |
| 18 | Amina and Miriam were continually wandering from house to house in the compound , searching for something new to amuse themselves . |
| 19 | Man can never completely get away from his origins with out harming himself ; he was a nomad , wandering from place to place with all his goods in tents , accompanied by his flocks of sheep and goats . |
| 20 | She 'd be able to feel the dipping stones of the pavement for ever now , she could call it all up at will : the soft-gutted proprietor drinking red wine for breakfast , his distracted mother wandering from room to room in a filthy wrapper , his wife powdering away her bitter lines and painting her disappointed mouth pink for the soft light of evening . |
| 21 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 22 | They crowded the path , uneasy on their uneasy mounts , looking from tree to tree in search of their assailants ; but they kept their hands from their swords . |
| 23 | He stood upright , looking from side to side in wonder . |
| 24 | Inevitably , this will involve looking from time to time at individual media , as each has its own characteristics , requirements , and available research resources . |
| 25 | Abruptly the laird smiled , looking from face to face along the front row , and said , ‘ Well , well — it is a fine morning for it . |
| 26 | As she clung to the powerful width of his shoulders , trembling from head to foot with the force of her emotions , he grasped the softness of her buttocks and drove deeply , irrevocably into the silken white-hot sheath of her with a harsh , abrupt shout of victory , his lidded gaze brilliant with triumph … |
| 27 | The department has expertise over a wide range of philosophical subjects , ranging from aesthetics to philosophy of science , philosophy of language and logic to moral philosophy , philosophy of mind to legal and political philosophy , and modern continental philosophy to the philosophy of religion . |
| 28 | The government jailed 100 or so of the party 's leading members on charges ranging from graffiti-writing to incitement of violence . |
| 29 | I still did some acting from time to time for short periods . |
| 30 | KIRKBY comic Sean Styles is grinning from ear to ear with his latest job . |