Example sentences of "and [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I could n't look as I stood helplessly at the top of stairs listening to him bumping and thudding from step to step until he reached the bottom . |
2 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
3 | I am able to examine concepts , she thought , to test values , for I have thought things out , I am not like my sister who bakes and cleans and shops and irons , and goes from day to day , never realising what her mind might discover , content to accept what has always been told her , without a doubt . |
4 | Movement and Dance from School into the Community |
5 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |
6 | ‘ Some musicians find the constant changes and surprises inherent in Berlioz 's dramatic idiom disrupting , and find a logical development difficult to achieve and to sustain from beginning to end . |
7 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
8 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
9 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
10 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |
11 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
12 | Harry demonstrated their strength by whipping off his shoes and walking from root to tip with neither give or wrinkling . |
13 | The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement . |
14 | In Lewis Carroll 's Alice in Wonderland we encounter a large cat , lying on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear . |
15 | There was also a large cat , which was sitting on a chair and grinning from ear to ear . |
16 | Benjamin 's shoulders shook as he controlled the bubble of laughter , but Henry sat back , clapping his hands and grinning from ear to ear like some bloody cat . |
17 | The questions of theory and of hypothesis seemed wrong now , and looking from face to face , he wondered how much good the answers would do him . |
18 | She wanted to be noticed in all her finery and as she walked up the aisle she kept stopping to give a little cough on the back of her hand and looking from side to side . |
19 | A few years ago Glen Robins was unemployed and living from hand to mouth . |
20 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
21 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |
22 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
23 | This stunning home , deep in the Welsh hills , was designed and built from scratch by these brave readers |
24 | The classic case is that of the American bison , reduced from millions to a handful of individuals , and saved from extinction by a hair 's breadth . |
25 | Sacha was a victim of skin cancer early in his career and suffered from cancer of the thyroid in 1971 . |
26 | While the defence division saw operating profit fall to £9.3m from £10.5m last time , and suffered from lack of new contracts , Hunting reckons the Atomic Weapons Establishment deal will be a significant contributor over the coming years . |
27 | The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time . |
28 | All patient areas require alteration , decoration and cleaning from time to time . |
29 | The Renault shot forward and slewed from side to side in the snow as she drove fast towards the gates . |
30 | He says getting into shops and going from floor to floor is often impossible . |