Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 2 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 3 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 4 | For one thing , they varied enormously from place to place ( e.g. the distinctions between the policies of the colonial administrations of Kenya and neighbouring Uganda , Brett 1973 ; Leys 1975 ) , and between Anglophone and Francophone Africa . |
| 5 | They went around from house to house demanding the licensing fee . |
| 6 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 7 | not and they had like from end to the other |