Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] from one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance .
2 The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold .
3 For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another .
4 Bassett said : ‘ It 's my fault for messing him about , switching him from one flank to the other then playing him through the middle .
5 it 's getting it from one place to the next
6 Tipping them from one bucket to the next ?
7 They are taking them from one list and putting them on another . ’
8 Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other .
9 This is a large pool , 6.5 ft by 39.5 ft , with a wide flight of steps entering it from one end .
10 One problem that a lot of knitters have , to start with , is that they find it difficult to free the weaving yarn from the sinker plate when changing it from one side of the sinker plate to the other .
11 But yesterday it was seen in Chaura and in Chhuma , running through the outskirts of the villages : and the day before , a dog like that had chased a sheep in Pere , and clutched it by the neck , shaking it from one side to the other until it died of shock .
12 And even Scottish law , where pension rights are taken into account on divorce , has no mechanism for transferring them from one person to another .
13 for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ;
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