Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This development coincides with the recent long-term appointment of Robert Norster , the Welsh team manager , and Alan Davies , the national coach , who will shortly be moving home from Nottingham to Wales . |
| 2 | Car will be travelling roughly from west to east or eastwards |
| 3 | By the time they reached Abergavenny , Owen was at Cardiff , and while they were pressing hard from Usk to Caerleon , Owen was withdrawing in excellent order into the wilds of Brecknock . |
| 4 | They were bustling anxiously from room to room , forgetting things , making last minute plans , asking each other how they looked . |
| 5 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 6 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 7 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 8 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 9 | Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth . |
| 10 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 11 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |