Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] from one " in BNC.
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| 1 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 2 | Blanche 's armchair squeaked as she moved her weight from one side to the other . |
| 3 | He listened to the traffic , felt the warm air slip by , moved his portfolio from one hand to the other , and thought of her . |
| 4 | They seemed to have their own stools , Quiss had observed ; they carried them on their backs as they made their way from one range to another , and Quiss had seen quite violent fights and rows breaking out over the disputed ownership of one of the small three-legged platforms . |
| 5 | ‘ It may seem a lot for what is , after all , supposed to be a luxury cruise ship , ’ Jill smiled wryly as they made their way from one ward to the next . |
| 6 | In Book 1 , students are gripped by ‘ The Search ’ — an adventure story in twenty episodes , and entertained by the absurd ‘ Dangerous Brothers ’ who stumble their way from one comic situation to another . |
| 7 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 8 | When I spoke I made it clear that I intended to do something about the position of the ‘ early leavers ’ and that I thought it right that people should not suffer if they transferred their pension from one job to another . |
| 9 | She twisted her head from one side to the other , trying to avoid the determined approach of his sensual mouth , aware that she was in no position to move an inch . |
| 10 | Its forelimbs have tiny claws on them which assist in grasping its mother 's hairs and it moves determinedly forward with a movement rather like a swimmer 's crawl , turning its head from one side to another with alternate strokes . |
| 11 | Others have drawn their inspiration from one or other of these classic sociologists , but have made significant alterations to their original theories in an attempt to describe and explain the class structures of capitalist industrial societies . |
| 12 | It had n't helped the economics , of course , that the nuclear industry had shifted its allegiance from one reactor design to another , scattering new research expenditure as it went . |
| 13 | Kenneth laughed as Fergus refilled his glass from one of the whisky bottles on the drinks trolley behind them . |
| 14 | She gets her reply from one of the players : " crablouse " ( said with Creole pronunciation , but by a speaker who anyway has a Jamaican accent ) . |
| 15 | The caves gave shelter to a new generation of troglodytes — European nomads , Australian girls ending their ‘ Grand Tours ’ by going native , those few English women who had felt the lure of the desert so intently that they now nursed fair-haired , olive-skinned babies and hung their washing-lines from one eroded pinnacle to another . |
| 16 | And strangely , the bull was responding , shifting its weight from one side to the other , so it was leaning slightly towards her . |
| 17 | IF THE PLAN has been for the Europeans not to show their strongest hands in the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn , which takes its name from one of the sweeping bends in the Mississipi River , much has gone according to plan . |
| 18 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 19 | Assuming that the Phillips curve is stable over time ( that is , it does not shift its position from one time period to another ) , we-could say that a lower unemployment percentage could be achieved at the cost of a higher rate of inflation . |
| 20 | He paused deliberately , slowly switching his gaze from one side of the table to the other . |
| 21 | Over the decades film editors have built up a classical ‘ syntax ’ of editing , which circumvents the lack of three dimensions by showing the same scene from various viewpoints , rather in the way an observer will watch a conversation by switching his attention from one speaker to the other . |
| 22 | Without being asked , he strode over to the door and waited , moving his weight from one foot to the other and tugging his shirt cuffs out of his jacket sleeves . |
| 23 | She stepped forward , and Stephen stood impatiently shifting his weight from one foot to the other whilst she struggled to fasten his bow-tie . |
| 24 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 25 | Most pay a rate of interest that will vary from time to time , but there is nothing to stop you moving your Tessa from one bank or building society to another if you think you can get a better return from another source . |
| 26 | In Southampton in the 1450s , when there was considerable bitterness in civic politics over the attitude to be taken to aliens , whether they should be welcomed for bringing wealth to the town , or attacked as intruders , marriage could lead a man to switch his allegiance from one group to another . |
| 27 | Further studies in the 1960s tended to confirm Phillips 's findings , though there was also some evidence that the Phillips curve was not completely stable but tended to shift its position from one time period to another . |
| 28 | He found himself being introduced to Agnes , and managed to withdraw his gaze from one sister to the other and to make some rather incoherent answers to the Countess 's greetings . |
| 29 | Todorov begins by taking his cue from one of James 's tales , ‘ The Figure in the Carpet ’ . |
| 30 | He managed to shift his weight from one cramped uncomfortable foot to the other . |