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 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 5 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The passage of the train was telegraphed forward from point to point throughout its journey . |
| 10 | In many of the experiments described in the earlier parts of this chapter , the context was changed substantially from pre-training to the test . |