Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] from [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it very useful when working with desktop applications as I jumped from one application to another with the minimum of fuss . |
| 2 | But you do n't walk far in Oloron without coming to one or other river ; both flow over weirs and both are well below street or house level so that there is the sound of water and a feeling of modest elevation everywhere , as well as regular riverside prospects from the various bridges as you cross from one part of town to the other . |
| 3 | There is , however , a bigger variation of meaning as we go from one group to another . |
| 4 | If we fail to do so , economic policies will remain more show than substance and the unemployed , the low-paid and others on low incomes , as well as manufacturing industries and small businesses , will continue to suffer as we lurch from one recession to the next . |
| 5 | Notice how meaning becomes more and more slippery as we move from one layer to the next . |
| 6 | One of those interesting questions is , for example , the relationship between column H and column I and the way in which those relationships change as we move from one district to another . |
| 7 | All she got was a glimpse of the empty Pyrenees , and the tiny concentrated ball of the rising sun , alternately revealed and hidden as they crossed from one face to another with first one peak throwing its dark bulk between them and then another . |
| 8 | It is my contention , by analogy with man , that the sensory world of these animals will shift as they move from one item to another in their behavioural repertoire . |
| 9 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |
| 10 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 11 | It comes as a surprise , often , to realise that such a clause as you know is constrained by rules , varying in meaning as it moves from one part of the sentence to another , and being disallowed in certain contexts . |
| 12 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 13 | ‘ Ca n't you see ? ’ , he would ask ; ‘ do n't you feel … ca n't you hear ? ’ , as he rushed from one place or book or topic to another , expecting others to have the same reactions , so that Frank Tait , a cultured and intelligent man , described how he ‘ hurried out of breath to seem less far behind ’ . |
| 14 | Another birdie came at the third as he holed from 15 feet , up then down hill , beyond the pin . |
| 15 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |
| 16 | This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's . |
| 17 | He was blasted in the back with a shotgun as he fled from 12 men who burst in hunting for him . |