Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 2 | Still not worried , still sliding smoothly through the crowds , feeling as elusive as a shadow , I passed from night-spot to night-spot . |
| 3 | I moved from Women to God , ’ he explained to Kate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 6 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 7 | But all seemed to go well for me as I climbed from boat to boat successfully , and then all I had to do was get to the wall from the last boat . |
| 8 | So I graduated from watcher to player and clapped as the sons and the Omani drummers played and sang . |
| 9 | I walked from Newington to Waverley with minimally packed rucksack — I was getting the hang of this backpacking . |
| 10 | Next day I walked from house to house again , looking in vain for work . |
| 11 | I glanced from Janice to Gav and back again , while Janice looked at me , lip trembling . |
| 12 | ON Friday 26 June 1992 — nine months after I had applied to be a Winant and Clayton Volunteer — I flew from Heathrow to New York . |
| 13 | I switched from Sidecars to Old Fashioneds . |
| 14 | I ached from head to toe and the wound in my throat , inflamed by the cold , created a circle of pain around my neck and shoulders . |
| 15 | I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere . |
| 16 | Not since I went from Dover to Calais with my parents in 1970 , when I was 14 . |
| 17 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 18 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 19 | I went from Alamein to Tobruk then to Syria . |
| 20 | Janice Flook ( Mrs Boniface ) writes ‘ after a varied career during which I migrated from chemistry to computing to telecommunications , I am now enjoying the early years of our son Keith who was born last year . |
| 21 | I never ran marathons , but gradually increased my distance , starting with a 30-mile race , then the Isle of Man 40 on the TT course , where I did well , and the following week I ran from Edinburgh to Glasgow , which is about 50 miles and came in about second or third . ’ |
| 22 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 23 | It all came to light when I travelled from Bradford to London to take part in a television programme about multiculturalism . |
| 24 | The last time I travelled from Wick to Dingwall was when the railway only reached as far north as Golspie ; the other portion of the road was an overnight stage-coach journey ; and to accommodate some ladies I took a seat on the top : it was a clear cold night , and the air was keen indeed . |
| 25 | He , after all , found her quite as repulsive as she found him and , as the two of them waltzed from oven to sink , from window to cutlery drawer , staring up , down , sideways , anywhere but at each other , Henry had always assumed that this was no more than the usual politesse of a failed English , suburban marriage . |
| 26 | She slouched from parent to parent , latching on to those who looked as if they would listen to her woes — not realizing , perhaps , that this was hardly the purpose of Parents ' Evening . |
| 27 | But there was no point in talking to Victoria , who had forgotten anywhere else because she lived from day to day . |
| 28 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 29 | Jessica followed closely , watching the stop-lights and the curly hair she caught from time to time around the head restraint on his front seat . |
| 30 | It was a I was gon na ask you you know , wh when you moved from shunter to foreman , you had responsibilities for a lot a lot besides the shunting . |