Example sentences of "went from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball went from McClair to Hughes , whose cross-field pass sent Giggs away to crash a shot past Coton . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 3 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 4 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 5 | This sort of interviewing could well be characteristic of a community survey where the researcher went from person to person linking up kinship networks , occupational groups , recreational groups , religious bodies , and so on . |
| 6 | She went from person to person , taking care to avoid Uncle Lionel . |
| 7 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 8 | The angel , disguised as an old man , went from door to door begging for food and drink . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their total pay bill went from £2.8 to £4.9 million . |
| 11 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 12 | He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class . |
| 13 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 14 | The Dharjees went from Iran to Bombay in the seventeenth century and came to Wimbledon in 1926 , mainly to get away from Bombay but also , apparently , for the tennis . ’ |
| 15 | On 30 May 1952 a letter went from Churchill to Ramsey offering him the see of Durham . |
| 16 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 17 | Embassies still went from Moscow to the states of Europe at irregular and often long intervals and stayed only briefly . |
| 18 | And then the guitarist went from Davey to Bernie Watson , who 'd previously been with Screaming Lord Sutch 's band ; then from Bernie to Roger Dean ( yes , the one who does all that artwork on Yes albums ) and from Roger Dean to Eric , and then Eric to Greeny and then to Mick Taylor … ’ |
| 19 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 20 | Erm ironically I was one of those that went from Essex to Manchester and I did live up there for a couple of years but er decided to come back . |
| 21 | It is , perhaps , significant that the long search for the ideal section to define the Silurian/Devonian boundary went from Czechoslovakia to the Ukraine , to Morocco and to the western regions of the U.S.A. and Canada . |
| 22 | Not since I went from Dover to Calais with my parents in 1970 , when I was 14 . |
| 23 | Under the loose sleeve was a red wound that went from elbow to wrist . |
| 24 | After that he went from chamber to chamber , from corridor to corridor , looking for other canvases which might fit the verse from the Apocalypse . |
| 25 | He went from Rugby to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , whence he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 July 1915 . |
| 26 | As Little Billy went from window to window , the Minpins followed him , clustering round and smiling at his exclamations of wonder . |
| 27 | ‘ Supplies went from famine to feast ; there will be quite a few copies washing around , ’ concluded John Hitchin . |
| 28 | Grain went from Rumania to Danzig by sea , all the way round Europe , and still cost 30 per cent less than overland by rail . |
| 29 | Otherwise , she went from firm to firm , wherever there was work , and usually managed to find some . |
| 30 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |