Example sentences of "[coord] shift from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 2 | And now she seemed to be planning a new use for those skills as I watched her gaze , fixed on Boy , or shifting from O to Boy . |
| 3 | Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot . |
| 4 | Mrs Chalmers is standing beside me , tutting and shifting from foot to foot — she has varicose veins , and does not like standing , which is why she always sits down to sort the bulbs . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , you know , ’ said the demon cautiously , glancing around nervously and shifting from claw to claw . |