Example sentences of "[verb] from house to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 2 | In some parts of the country , ploughs , decorated with coloured ribbons , were carried from house to house and then a mumming play was performed . |
| 3 | However , Mrs Knelle seemed to be driving from house to house to exchange news , and I thought the old Ireland persisted around Lough Corrib as well as might be expected , or better . |
| 4 | Amina and Miriam were continually wandering from house to house in the compound , searching for something new to amuse themselves . |
| 5 | Wandering from house to house I asked for directions to the ruins of the palace . |
| 6 | This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored . |
| 7 | Here , admired as the author of Holy Living and Holy Dying , he was appointed by a group of Royalists as their chaplain , going from house to house , holding services , baptisms and confessions . |
| 8 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 9 | Her round of days seemed to me to be a drone-like existence , moving from house to compound , compound to house . |
| 10 | We have to keep moving from house to house , because nowhere is safe . |
| 11 | She lives moving from house to house to keep the security forces off her tracks , " Now my home is here with the Committee " , she explained . |
| 12 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 13 | He went from house to house in certain areas of the East End of London , painstakingly recording the number of residents , the number of rooms they occupied , their living conditions , their income , diet , clothing , and so on . |
| 14 | We went from house to house , passing White Memorial Hospital , whose waiting room had been shot up when one gang went to kill the wounded members of another . |
| 15 | They went from house to house checking all night long . |
| 16 | William Livingston ( 1818–1870 ) who apprenticed to a tailor and went from house to house in the course of his work , must have known the people well and written about their hard life . |
| 17 | William Livingston ( 1818–1870 ) who apprenticed to a tailor and went from house to house in the course of his work , must have known the people well and written about their hard life . |
| 18 | The wren-boys who had gone from house to house on the lorry all day were now scrubbed and combed , playing away cheerfully on raised planks . |
| 19 | These people go from house to house selling goods . |
| 20 | Then the women draw up a petition and go from house to house explaining the problem and collecting signatures . |
| 21 | People may go from house to house with their gifts of eggs to greet each other again after the separation of winter . |
| 22 | We move from house to house for a glass of sherry and a chat . |
| 23 | They had at Castle Menzies — at the sunrise of the movement , striding from house to house , irresistible . |