Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology .
2 She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances .
3 A lightweight chiffon shirt ( right ) is the perfect cover over swimsuits or bodies when you 're gliding from beach to bar .
4 She made to close the door on them when Mrs Phipps added , ‘ We 're gooin' from dower to dower ter get a collection up for a few flowers .
5 If you think about the problems that there are with mathematics , whereby it 's not just a question of scanning print from left to right , but that you were involved in processes where sometimes you 're moving from left to right and sometimes from right to left , sometimes vertically .
6 ‘ Tell Corps we 're flying from dawn to dusk .
7 But the chain was trading as usual and Mr Chapman 's outlook remained buoyant : ‘ The business has been going from strength to strength . ’
8 If you are using a Brother machine you need to take care when you are going from lace to a tuck stitch row and vice vera .
9 WHILE a growing number of British companies are switching from petrol to diesel-engined cars to improve fuel consumption and cut costs , one company , originally at the vanguard of the diesel movement , has dumbfounded the experts by reversing its decision and going back to petrol .
10 Each year , about half-a-million workers are switching from cash to payment through a bank account .
11 George Bush has been swerving from side to side as Jekyll battles Hyde for command of the president 's soul .
12 So if you are moving from punchcard to electronic ( of the same gauge ) , your ribber , rib transfer carriage , colour changer and so on , will all fit your electronic machine .
13 The US spokesman declared that " we are starting from zero to fashion a new kind of relationship " .
14 If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle .
15 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 .
16 Not that you did much , you 'd be going from class to class entertaining the kids with your dances and stories .
17 The Cowley based company Unipart appears to be going from strength to strength despite the gloom in the rest of the industry of the last three years .
18 Money was the issue , because he used to spend his money on hobbies and I 'd never know what I 'd be getting from week to week and some weeks I 'd not get anything .
19 He appears to be moving from place to place , and we want to speak to Mr Chaudhry about abduction
20 Pion helped Masklin down on to the ground , which seemed to him to be moving from side to side .
21 If many students are likely to be moving from room to room , and even leaving the school altogether , some system of control and supervision will certainly be necessary so that no one gets lost , or is tempted to fritter away time or abscond .
22 Or we will for Ever be Running from Place to Place .
23 And with the additional treatments from DeCleor you 'll be glowing from top to toe by the end of the week .
24 Very few of you will be starting from scratch to implement your computerised personnel information system .
25 The heads of the other men present have been swivelling from side to side , like spectators at a tennis match , during this argument .
26 Finally , the Rampton/Swann statistics themselves provide evidence that the educational achievements of Afro-Caribbean children and young people are increasing from year to year at a higher rate than those of other groups .
27 In the words of the Irish ballad , the birds they were singing from tree to tree .
28 I could see you were prickling from head to foot with some kind of emotion towards me .
29 These men were walking from work-house to work-house .
30 The Crawfords were living from week to week , and soon the Rolls-Royce had to go .
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