Example sentences of "and [verb] from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
| 2 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 3 | I am able to examine concepts , she thought , to test values , for I have thought things out , I am not like my sister who bakes and cleans and shops and irons , and goes from day to day , never realising what her mind might discover , content to accept what has always been told her , without a doubt . |
| 4 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |
| 5 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
| 6 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
| 7 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 8 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 9 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |
| 10 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 11 | Harry demonstrated their strength by whipping off his shoes and walking from root to tip with neither give or wrinkling . |
| 12 | The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement . |
| 13 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 14 | There was also a large cat , which was sitting on a chair and grinning from ear to ear . |
| 15 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
| 16 | The questions of theory and of hypothesis seemed wrong now , and looking from face to face , he wondered how much good the answers would do him . |
| 17 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
| 18 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
| 19 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
| 20 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
| 21 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 22 | The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time . |
| 23 | All patient areas require alteration , decoration and cleaning from time to time . |
| 24 | The Renault shot forward and slewed from side to side in the snow as she drove fast towards the gates . |
| 25 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 26 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 27 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |
| 28 | TEN years on and going from strength to strength … |
| 29 | Instead you can knit every needle on the main bed , hand select pattern needles on the ribber and transfer from ribber to main bed using the rib transfer carriage . |
| 30 | Once this process is complete , the compost is ready for the land , and any further storage will result in some loss , unless it is kept covered and turned from time to time . |