Example sentences of "[pers pn] go from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I go from hero to bum , so be it . ’ |
| 2 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 3 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 4 | ‘ Jim has been patching players up to keep them going from week to week . |
| 5 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 6 | At first all that would come into it were moralising precepts about drink which he remembered from having to copy them as exercises when he was a student : I am told you go from street to street where everything stinks to the gods of alcohol . |
| 7 | How do we know that the laws of nature are not really like laws of a game of chess , but played on a chess board where the laws change as you go from place to place on the chess board , which is a very more complicated situation than an ordinary chess game where the laws are the same no matter where the pieces are . |
| 8 | Otherwise , she went from firm to firm , wherever there was work , and usually managed to find some . |
| 9 | She went from person to person , taking care to avoid Uncle Lionel . |
| 10 | She went from room to room , praising the decor , and if she noticed the paintings they did n't appear to do her any obvious mischief . |
| 11 | The only thing that changes is our bodily condition , soul comes into the body and we go from birth to death , and how I look at it is that death is like taking your suit off . |
| 12 | If we go from left to right along a row of p-block elements , the effect of increasing mass is outweighed by the increasing bond strength , and frequencies increase ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 13 | For a week we went from door to door , saying goodbye to all the families we considered as our own because we had lived among them so long . |
| 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 | We went from city to city , from bush town to bush town , civic reception after civic reception given by local mayors with chains around their necks , musical welcomes with God Save the King and For They Are Jolly Good Fellows , and Plum Warner uttering platitude after platitude about the ideals of cricket and British fair-play , until the subject became uncomfortable and undiplomatic . |
| 16 | And strange to say , it had coal fires in the winter , huge coal fires to keep it warm , or attempt to do , and most of the classrooms were only divided by portable partitions so that while we went from class to class as the two or three years went by , it really was in one long building and quite adequate for the time . |
| 17 | Anyway , to get back to our story ; over the years we went from strength to strength , moving to a rented warehouse and then four years ago my husband bought an old cinema . |
| 18 | They went from house to house checking all night long . |
| 19 | yeah , but it goes from computer to computer , but summat 's gone wrong ai n't it ? , somewhere along the line , they 've rang the bank themselves maybe he did n't believe your dad or not I do n't know , she got back to him , she says , we 've rang your bank and they were very helpful , they saw it so what you have to do is ring Blackpool , she says as so as soon as Blackpool ring back , she 'll ring |
| 20 | It goes from alpha to omega , beginning Alpha , beta , gamma , delta . |
| 21 | ‘ It goes from side to side , stopping at every landing point so you 'll have a good — and cheap — view of all the buildings along the canal . ’ |
| 22 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 23 | After that he went from chamber to chamber , from corridor to corridor , looking for other canvases which might fit the verse from the Apocalypse . |
| 24 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 25 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 26 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 27 | He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class . |
| 28 | First , like a thief casing the joint , he went from room to room again and made a mental inventory of his disposable assets . |
| 29 | The mechanic watched him out of the comer of his eye as he went from car to car , making an elaborate pretence of examining the interiors . |
| 30 | Elstree now mastered in the ‘ Fury , he went from strength to strength until one day he took-off , put the wheels up and the lights would n't go out . |