Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 2 | Even so Edinburgh Academicals have provided Sole with a solid platform from which he has gone from strength to strength , culminating in three Tests and a series triumph for the Lions . |
| 3 | While unpacking , he found a chess set ; his father explained some of the moves , and since then he has gone from strength to strength despite the fact that the family has no chess background . |
| 4 | But now he has moved from critic to principal player , he may discover the advantages of the business brain so vilified by Raine 's critics . |
| 5 | This year Bradl has a new two-year contract with HB and he has switched from Michelin to Dunlop tyres . |
| 6 | As he has shifted from opposition to support for the Vance-Owen plan , so has Serbian television . |
| 7 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 8 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 9 | On his ‘ China voyage ’ he plans to spend from May to October sailing the 4,500 miles up the coast of East Asia and riding what the Japanese call the kuroshio ( the black current ) to North America . |
| 10 | We heard his remarkable speech in the seaport of Miletus , to the church leaders of Ephesus , as he started to travel from Greece to Jerusalem . |
| 11 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 12 | He kept shifting from foot to foot , as if in pain . |
| 13 | ‘ He had a role , but he kept going from character to character , using a whole lot of different accents , cockney one moment , the voice of a high court judge the next . ’ |
| 14 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 15 | In February 1991 he had moved from Palermo to Rome in order to become director-general of penal affairs in the Justice Ministry , and it had been widely expected that he might head a new judicial body which was to be created as part of a fresh anti-Mafia drive . |
| 16 | He had moved from Camberwell to Central with William Johnstone and at his request . |
| 17 | For a lord 's status was directly related to the size of following he could support , and the larger his entourage the more frequently he had to move from estate to estate to feed them . |
| 18 | P.A. Stafford thinks that Cnut may have reinforced this by encouraging the cults of other murdered princes , such as Wigstan , a ninth-century Mercian , whom he had translated from Repton to Evesham . |
| 19 | he 's pushed from pillar to post this kid |
| 20 | He stood looking from Luke to Merrill , then he smiled . |
| 21 | Is it not a ridiculous situation when the motoring correspondent of The Times ( 30 Jan. ) describes how he intended travelling from Brighton to Birmingham by rail , but found that he could drive for one quarter of the price , despite sole occupancy of a largish estate car ? |