Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 2 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 4 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 5 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 6 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 7 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 8 | From there he easily caught a British Airways flight staging through from Mauritius to London . |
| 9 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 10 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 11 | These arguments yield the curve in Fig. 6.1 , sloping downwards from left to right , becoming less and less steep and cutting the horizontal axis at the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 12 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 13 | By the time they reached Abergavenny , Owen was at Cardiff , and while they were pressing hard from Usk to Caerleon , Owen was withdrawing in excellent order into the wilds of Brecknock . |
| 14 | " Not to be mentioned in the same breath with … " she said , looking nervously from Frederica to painted signature . |
| 15 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |
| 16 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 17 | Lurching slowly from side to side , becoming faster and steadier , the Vimy rose into the air followed by cheers from the spectators and smiles from the Vickers team . |
| 18 | He raised a hand with abrupt , convulsive passion and stroked her cheek , long fingers smoothing eloquently from temple to chin in a gesture of helpless apology . |
| 19 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 20 | Through their hold over the nine main lines fanning out from Moscow to all points of the compass they had succeeded in cutting off one White force from another in the Civil War . |
| 21 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 22 | It screamed along the tunnels , its banshee-wail bouncing madly from stone to stone . |
| 23 | A grass snake swimming obligingly from island to bank in full view of watchers . |
| 24 | The tail of an all-black cat , severed and buried under the doorstep of a house , was considered to be a way of preventing all members of the family living there from succumbing to sickness and ill health . |
| 25 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 26 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 27 | In these last years of the war , he was simply continuing with his life , going on from day to day without much hope for the future . |
| 28 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 29 | But plants left to seed have their own beauty , the seed-heads turning gradually from green to orange to rusty brown , sometimes reaching a height of 5ft , tracing delicate patterns against the sky . |
| 30 | He also says council parking fines will be going up from £5 to £30 in April and police fines would rise from £16 to £30 . |