Example sentences of "from one to the " in BNC.

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1 Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste .
2 This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency .
3 Wexford looked from one to the other .
4 It was considered bourgeois to own or rent an appartement , so the artistic community of St-Germain-des Pres lived in hotels , paying daily for their night 's — or day 's — rest , flitting from one to the next as circumstances demanded .
5 In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line .
6 The dividing line between border and pathway melts as plants spill over from one to the other .
7 The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them .
8 It is relatively easy to move from one to the other .
9 Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk .
10 Mrs Marsden looked from one to the other in confusion .
11 Tenison looked from one to the other uncertainly .
12 I remembered moving from one to the other , explaining : I am a writer ; the notebooks are what is precious to me .
13 ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’
14 Sir George looked from one to the other .
15 When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again .
16 Taking in every inch of their bodies , she said , looking from one to the other , she said , in her famously well-timed drawl , That 's just how I want you .
17 The 1960s were marked by a strong interest in the relationship between primary and secondary education , and in possible changes in the age of transfer from one to the other .
18 Every time that sexual intercourse takes place with a new partner there is a risk that some disease will be passed on from one to the other and , with rare exceptions , there is no way of telling , by simply looking at a person , whether they have an infection or not .
19 Sometimes a grammar school and a secondary modern school were located close to one another , even on the same ‘ campus ’ , in order to facilitate the sharing of resources , or the movement of pupils from one to the other .
20 She nodded from one to the other ; then watched the young man open the door and stand aside to allow his wife to pass before him .
21 She came in and bolted the door , then stood with her back to it , looking from one to the other .
22 Belle was smiling broadly and Agnes , looking now from one to the other , said , ‘ It is n't a hat then ? ’
23 I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’
24 ‘ Oh , yes , yes ’ — the old lady nodded from one to the other at the table now — ‘ in a crocodile , from the school to the church , from the school to the conciergerie , from the … ’
25 And , looking from one to the other , she now said , ‘ Goodnight , fellows , and a happy Christmas . ’
26 Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street .
27 She watched the big woman flop back and onto a chair , then look from one to the other of her silent sons as she said , ‘ Did you hear that ?
28 When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now .
29 Denis hesitated and looked from one to the other , then he put the paten under Noreen 's chin .
30 There may be a need for transfer of the stock from one to the other , or for duplication for both sections of titles which are only held in one .
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