Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys crashed to the floor next to Gedanken ; the piece of paper followed , slowly fluttering from side to side like a snowflake . |
| 2 | In the indictment Bunyan was accused , among other things , of ‘ devilishly and perniciously abstaining from coming to Church to hear Divine Service ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It is an achievement to play games at the moment , as we are literally living from hand to mouth . |
| 4 | I am reduced to sitting staring out of the window with nothing much to look at but a young man , presumably a salesman or political canvasser , patiently going from door to door down the street . |
| 5 | A general fining of the material and better sorting from east to west is the result . |
| 6 | The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose . |
| 7 | It 's a very difficult time , we 're just living from day to day . |
| 8 | Ride are just going from strength to strength — one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment . |
| 9 | Its found some doctors walk up to eighteen miles every day just getting from patient to patient . |
| 10 | But you could be three or four hundred miles away moving from Penzance to Aberdeen . |
| 11 | It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place . |
| 12 | People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make . |
| 13 | But it , it , it 's not covering from factory to airport or anything of that sort . |
| 14 | I ca n't afford to take you out properly or buy you a proper Christmas present , or be able to tell you not to worry — I 'm twenty-eight years old and I 'm still living from hand to mouth like a bloody tramp . |
| 15 | Originally formed ‘ sort of as a joke ’ , Love Child sound like they 're still grinning from ear to ear . |
| 16 | The Methodists were nonetheless going from strength to strength , and noting that they listened to ‘ hearty , racy , cutting and unctuous speeches which surely would never be forgotten . ’ |
| 17 | this bloke and his bird , right , and then ahead would n't like it clears up a bit in , in the Blackwall tunnel but it 's still like sort of five yards in between each car and he 's just like moving from lane to lane without signalling or anything |
| 18 | He had been a sub-editor in those days , working for a huge magazine corporation , and they had struck up an instant rapport , and when he was made first assistant editor and then editor , always moving from magazine to magazine , he had pushed work her way whenever he could . |
| 19 | Sedimentation goes on all the time , for ever moving from place to place , for ever cannibalising itself . |
| 20 | They all got totally zonkers and were like running from machine to machine making and Benguiat the , not Benguiat , Brillo , was yelling it should be like this all the time . |
| 21 | Again he bowed , once more colouring from neck to brow . |
| 22 | His mouth was wet and his eyes were still flicking from side to side . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm still tingling from head to toe . ’ |
| 24 | Fifteen degrees of flap induce marked buffet at 92 knots , with the stick very noticeably jerking from side to side at a stall speed of 85 knots . |
| 25 | For instance , I remember him back at Troon eleven years later going from bunker to bunker at the postage Stamp like a lost man — — at the same time as Gene Sarazen got a hole-in-one there . |
| 26 | The offer was backdated to April , and there were now arrears waiting to be picked up varying from £653 to £12,090 ; she hoped they would consider that it was a reasonable offer . |
| 27 | A north-west gale had given us a good shaking up crossing from Peterhead to Wick resulting in a cracked cylinder head . |
| 28 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 29 | The mixture of sounds and ideas comes from Fyfe 's vehement defence of dance music , now moving from techno to Consolidated ; Michael 's travelling CD collection , which finds Carcass nestling next to House Of Pain ; and Andy 's belief in a belligerent guitar sound , tempered with tunes ( a throwback in part to his early teen encounters with punk and new wave ) . |
| 30 | Cranston asked directions from a one-eyed beggarman and came back beaming from ear to ear . |