Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] from one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next .
2 A : what have you got to do this afternoon B : oh I 'm * going to repair the child bar A : what do you mean CHILD bar B : uh it 's er metal bar goes acr — has to be fixed from one side of the car I mean from one side of the back seat to the other for the BABY seat to go on A : AH …
3 I passed from one block to another .
4 Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness .
5 If I want to switch I tip from one bucket to the other , we 'll charge him eighteen pounds , and we 're absolutely right , as Gerald says , we do it on a bid to bid basis .
6 The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round .
7 From then on I continually sought quiet , and that although I went from one place to another .
8 She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . "
9 I come from one room to a from a long er way a way to another room .
10 I chased from one exit to the next .
11 I found it very useful when working with desktop applications as I jumped from one application to another with the minimum of fuss .
12 ‘ They may say enough is enough to stop the endless hospital visits , the tubes , the needles and other painful indignities ; to stop them lurching from one crisis to another without any real hope . ’
13 I smeared the red stuff over the top of the main beam which crosses from one I-girder to the other on the tower , then wiped my small wound with an antiseptic tissue from one of my bags .
14 Each of the 40 walks selected , which range from one mile to eight miles long , are illustrated with a simple map and easy to follow step by step instructions .
15 They describe some typical conversations in which comments from one person did not link in an expected way to preceding comments — where there seemed to be a very loose connection between what one person said and the next .
16 Thus northern communities that live above subsistence level generally have to be subsidized , and can expect to survive only while subsidies last ; their continuance depends on political decisions , which vary from one part of the north to another ( Armstrong and others , 1978 ) .
17 This is crucial , as tumour samples are almost invariably mixtures of tumour cells , non-tumour epithelium , connective tissue , and inflammatory cells , the proportions of which vary from one sample to a nother .
18 The lesions consist of separate , raised , umbilicated spots which vary from one millimetre to one centimetre in diameter .
19 For example , the tin-glazed pottery made in Europe from the Renaissance onwards was produced in many styles : that made in the Low Countries ( known as Delftware ) is of a specific range and type which varies from one production centre to another and is different again from the maiolica of Italy and the lustreware of Spain .
20 A couple strolled past on clicking heels which echoed from one side of the road to the other .
21 This depended not only on variations in rate poundage but also on rateable values , which varied from one part of the country to another .
22 There was usually a passage which went from one wing to the other and crossed the open hall at first floor level .
23 The archaeological evidence is a kaleidoscope of numerous activities which differ from one area to the next through time .
24 MENSA , the organisation for people with very high IQs , started an investment club which bought from one sharedealer an American OTC stock Biotech Capital Corporation .
25 All activity is generated by the Mind in its normal waking or sleeping state which moves from one sensation to the next , and unlike the external senses which provide knowledge , Mind is not confined to a specific field of operation .
26 The explosion of the term ‘ regionalism ’ in this way should lead one to be suspicious of usages of it which slide from one focus of attention to another , eliding explanations in the meanwhile .
27 She sent us a draft copy and she deserves success for all the hard work she has put into researching the variations in tension which occur from one make of machine to another .
28 Nonetheless , Hart is highly critical of Devlin 's identification of society with its shared morality and he further accuses Devlin of conceiving of morality as a ‘ seamless web ’ , so that those who deviate from one part of it are almost bound to deviate from the whole .
29 This means that you zig-zag from one side to the other , twisting your centre-line as you move .
30 People who leap from one relationship to another like someone crossing a stream on stepping-stones never grow up .
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