Example sentences of "we [vb past] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , they were of decisive moment in how we lived from day to day and deserved the commemoration of daily objects , so that William 's figure , seated on his prancing white charger , sword-arm raised in a gesture of advance , decorated tea-towels and plates . |
| 2 | Here at Practical PC , we 've had AUTOEXEC.BATs full of REMmed lines — alternative command lines that needed editing to make changes in the various programs and drivers we used from time to time . |
| 3 | we stopped from time to time |
| 4 | That day we walked from Glaramara to Castle Crags , where we had an excellent view over Derwent Water before crossing the valley to explore Grange Fell . |
| 5 | We stepped from stone to stone across the new-born stream , below the trees . |
| 6 | ‘ We worked from daybreak to dusk on farmland . |
| 7 | For the next two hours we flew from tree to tree , grabbing onto creepers to break the fall to the next ancient branch , to land in a pile of ferns and fall on again faster . |
| 8 | ‘ We started from scratch by saying that if we had a brand new game called rugby what would it be like ? |
| 9 | We leapt from rock to rock , trying to synchronise the landing wobble into a launch aid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We flirted from time to time with good-looking or not-so-good-looking men in the company . |