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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " Not to be mentioned in the same breath with … " she said , looking nervously from Frederica to painted signature . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 16 | It screamed along the tunnels , its banshee-wail bouncing madly from stone to stone . |
| 17 | A grass snake swimming obligingly from island to bank in full view of watchers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 23 | — A submissive spirit might be patient , a strong understanding would supply resolution , but here was something more ; here was that elasticity of mind , that disposition to be comforted , that power of turning readily from evil to good , and of finding employment which carried her out of herself , which was from Nature alone . |
| 24 | Dropping from the basis means deleting the edge from p to q from the tree , T , and adding I to J. The result is still a tree because , if the path from i to 1 in T is broken by dropping the edge from p to q , another path can be constructed by going instead from p to q round the cycle ( using the edge I to J ) . |
| 25 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 26 | Was it even now shadowing them , moving soundlessly from cover to cover , like a tiger in the steel jungle ? |
| 27 | It rested on the myth that the peasantry were instinctively socialist and that it was possible for Russia to bypass capitalism , moving directly from semi-feudalism to socialism based on the peasant commune . |
| 28 | This development coincides with the recent long-term appointment of Robert Norster , the Welsh team manager , and Alan Davies , the national coach , who will shortly be moving home from Nottingham to Wales . |
| 29 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 30 | He left the office late and dropped into a nearby wine bar to have a glass of the house Chardonnay and unwind from the day 's traumas , his thoughts drifting haphazardly from Cindy to Alexandra to Emma and back to Alexandra . |