Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Our intention was to slide seamlessly from Maureen to Joyce .
2 One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor .
3 As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil .
4 This study was carried out from March to December 1989 at the Kenyatta National Hospital , which is the only free public hospital in Nairobi , a city of 1.28 million residents .
5 She was trembling now from head to foot .
6 I was trembling violently from head to foot .
7 Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’
8 Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good .
9 The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders .
10 A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ .
11 Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth .
12 So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York .
13 She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum .
14 He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know .
15 The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations .
16 To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question .
17 The passage of the train was telegraphed forward from point to point throughout its journey .
18 Believed to actually be A–24A 42–60817 , ( N9142H ) the old Douglas was trucked in from Seattle to Long Beach for some much-needed mechanical work .
19 In many of the experiments described in the earlier parts of this chapter , the context was changed substantially from pre-training to the test .
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