Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | This means that you zig-zag from one side to the other , twisting your centre-line as you move . |
14 | Sarah had never seen anything look so lovely , and she danced from one end of the table to the other to admire it . |
15 | it 's got ta be useful because instead of going you know from one sort at one end and going out the other and never being ever seen again it 's going |
16 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
17 | Standing up , she walked from one side of the window to the other , her movements stiff and her legs trembly from the accumulated tension in her muscles . |
18 | She walked from one end of the hall to the other ; no Edward . |
19 | She glanced from one end of the kitchen to the other , noting the sparkling sink without a cup or plate in sight , and the gleaming table top , then the freshly scrubbed floor that was still damp in the corners ; the coconut matting beneath her feet bristled from its merciless thrashing . |
20 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |
21 | You know , very often when you go from one country to another you go through an area of re , what is called no man 's land , you come through from one frontier and then you 've got a distance and you come to the next frontier that does n't exist as far as accepting or rejecting Christ is concerned . |
22 | For instance if you want to turn an object on a lathe erm and you go from one end of a shaft to the other , no matter , supposing you do it ten times , erm the machine will take that cut in exactly the same time . |
23 | She drifted from one conversation to another : Jamie and Francis in the Max Miller blue corner , Marina as audience , Dionne and Lucy in the Arts ring . |
24 | She went from one man to the other . |
25 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
26 | But you do n't walk far in Oloron without coming to one or other river ; both flow over weirs and both are well below street or house level so that there is the sound of water and a feeling of modest elevation everywhere , as well as regular riverside prospects from the various bridges as you cross from one part of town to the other . |
27 | One , Dr Douglas Rossdale , said : ‘ If she did not get the answer she wanted from one doctor she would go to another . ’ |
28 | Part of the equipment of a good manager is the experience and the bank of memories which he or she carries from one school , one area , one education authority to another . |
29 | During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another , unloading and loading a variety of cargoes . |
30 | Do I guide the Feedback Session so that we grow from one session to another ? |