Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 2 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 3 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 4 | How do we know that the laws of nature are not really like laws of a game of chess , but played on a chess board where the laws change as you go from place to place on the chess board , which is a very more complicated situation than an ordinary chess game where the laws are the same no matter where the pieces are . |
| 5 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 6 | Her thoughts still whirling , Shae looked up to see Marianne standing by the table , her green eyes calculating and faintly malicious as she glanced from Shannon to Gavin . |
| 7 | She brought her hands to her waist and , keeping her elbows out , pushed one forward then the other , as she twisted from side to side ; her face alight , she directed her radiance at the audience , finishing with the invitation , that issued from her lips as a command : |
| 8 | Jonna flinched back and Annie sighed as she looked from father to son . |
| 9 | Although as she changed from bus to bus she was free at last of the accusing voices , she had time for a number of second thoughts , wishing in particular that she had put on other clothes , and had had her hair cut . |
| 10 | She was filled with an overwhelming sense of loss as she wandered from tree to tree , recognising many , feeling herself accused : she had overstayed her welcome in the world . |
| 11 | The house seemed to put comforting arms around her , as she wandered from room to room . |
| 12 | My mother s face as she spun from uniform to uniform shone with the frightened ecstasy of a martyred saint . |
| 13 | Britt 's distress is being made worse by a daunting work schedule and the strain was painfully evident as she jetted from Stockholm to Malmo . |
| 14 | Claudia gritted her teeth together , groaning as she blushed from head to foot . |
| 15 | It gathers up the movement of the house as we pass from kitchen to living room or dining room , or kitchen to bedrooms . |
| 16 | As we know from time to time but not in time . |
| 17 | In a country of 17 million people , around one million actually travelled to see them as they journeyed from city to city . |
| 18 | Caroline glanced at Nicolo as they strolled from vendor to vendor . |
| 19 | As they stepped from grass to gravel , a long dark green Mercedes two-seater swept towards them , accelerating fast . |
| 20 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |
| 21 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 22 | The forms have no definite shape , as they change from round to round , but they are vaguely humanoid and attack with limb-like appendages . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His lizard eyes , as they flicked from Nathan to Polly and back again , were alight with curiosity , yet there was no warmth in them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design . |
| 28 | With the way jobs are going it 's harder to keep members as they move from job to job . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |