Example sentences of "they [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 2 | Financial support is perhaps the most accessible to documentation , although even this is not always clear , especially for the great majority of the population who did not codify their financial support for kin through wills and settlements , simply because they lived from hand to mouth . |
| 3 | The forms have no definite shape , as they change from round to round , but they are vaguely humanoid and attack with limb-like appendages . |
| 4 | They change from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to adult . |
| 5 | That afternoon , as they moved from church to market square and strolled admiringly past rows of handsome eighteenth-century houses , greedily Robbie recorded every second , every sight , every sensation , building up a store of precious memories to take out and brood over when this time out of reality — as it must — came to an end . |
| 6 | They moved from cover to cover within the compound , advancing towards the rear of the battle , following the sounds that would lead them to their own side and to news of the day 's progress . |
| 7 | Much of this mobility was accounted for by adolescent farm servants who regularly changed jobs every year ; they moved from farm to farm regardless of parish boundaries but rarely went very far . |
| 8 | The Conservative philosophy fitted , so they moved from Labour to Conservative . ’ |
| 9 | It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design . |
| 10 | They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound . |
| 11 | They range from Badminton to Babies , Food to Flying , Politics to Problems , Stress to Staff and a lot more crammed in . |
| 12 | Caroline glanced at Nicolo as they strolled from vendor to vendor . |
| 13 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |
| 14 | In addition , they suffered from time to time through gaps in chairmanship because ministers had failed to appoint in time . |
| 15 | A look of determination spread over several faces as they hurtled from side to side , and several comical scenes were witnessed as spinnakers were flown on the downwind run . |
| 16 | In return the museums can offer a wide range of privileges and special activities — they vary from museum to museum . |
| 17 | However , solutions to such problems are culturally determined : they vary from society to society . |
| 18 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |
| 19 | In general , though , they vary from long-oval in shape to almost globular , are borne on rather long peduncles and , by now , will have almost entirely lost the wizened remains of the flower 's calyx . |
| 20 | You would be wise to phone ahead , especially if you are coming a long way , to check opening times because they vary from time to time . |
| 21 | They are immediately recognisable on the one-inch map by the manner in which they run from village to village practically straight across country , with perhaps an occasional sudden right-angled bend and then on again . |
| 22 | Movements are tracked with each individual 's location being constantly logged and updated as they transfer from helicopter to platform , supply vessel , or other destination . |
| 23 | It is a common sight to see bands of penniless zealots whipping and beating themselves as they travel from village to village , begging scraps of food and preaching their own nightmare vision of doom and despondency . |
| 24 | As they stepped from grass to gravel , a long dark green Mercedes two-seater swept towards them , accelerating fast . |
| 25 | ‘ This is what they get from arsehole to breakfast . |
| 26 | Liberals might welcome this ; yet the effects , as they varied from state to state , were by no means reassuring . |
| 27 | They weave from side to side and usually havenm't a clue what they 're doing |
| 28 | He held onto his back as they leapt from shelf to shelf and soon he no longer had to shut his eyes as they flew through the air . |
| 29 | Of course they died from time to time , so there was a light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 30 | They were grand princesses dancing superbly throughout , but never once suggested that they grew from girl to woman by any change of expression or ways of dancing . |