Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] from one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I passed from one block to another . |
| 2 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 3 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 4 | From then on I continually sought quiet , and that although I went from one place to another . |
| 5 | I chased from one exit to the next . |
| 6 | I found it very useful when working with desktop applications as I jumped from one application to another with the minimum of fuss . |
| 7 | A couple strolled past on clicking heels which echoed from one side of the road to the other . |
| 8 | This depended not only on variations in rate poundage but also on rateable values , which varied from one part of the country to another . |
| 9 | There was usually a passage which went from one wing to the other and crossed the open hall at first floor level . |
| 10 | Sarah had never seen anything look so lovely , and she danced from one end of the table to the other to admire it . |
| 11 | Standing up , she walked from one side of the window to the other , her movements stiff and her legs trembly from the accumulated tension in her muscles . |
| 12 | She walked from one end of the hall to the other ; no Edward . |
| 13 | She glanced from one end of the kitchen to the other , noting the sparkling sink without a cup or plate in sight , and the gleaming table top , then the freshly scrubbed floor that was still damp in the corners ; the coconut matting beneath her feet bristled from its merciless thrashing . |
| 14 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |
| 15 | She drifted from one conversation to another : Jamie and Francis in the Max Miller blue corner , Marina as audience , Dionne and Lucy in the Arts ring . |
| 16 | She went from one man to the other . |
| 17 | She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . |
| 18 | During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another , unloading and loading a variety of cargoes . |
| 19 | Until Hopkin & Williams published its paper in The Analyst ( 1961 , p464 ) , every laboratory had its own preferred prime standardisation substance , and if one moved from one lab to another one would find that the primary standard — say sodium hydrogen phthalate , borax or sodium carbonate — produced a slightly different standard acid from the one the old laboratory used . |
| 20 | In surveying the discovery of penicillin , we moved from one domain of science to another . |
| 21 | We went from one D to the other with six passes ; it was a superb goal . |
| 22 | We went from one corner of the country to another and we stayed in palaces and magnificent hotels and played in beautiful little theatres , and then two weeks later , we 'd be in a dark bungalow with cockroaches and snakes in the loo , where they had desks tied together with string for a stage . |
| 23 | They hopped from one foot to another to keep warm in their baggy knickers . |
| 24 | When they moved from one field to another he leaned down to unlatch and open gates , and as the bay gelding went through the grey mare followed dutifully . |
| 25 | All she got was a glimpse of the empty Pyrenees , and the tiny concentrated ball of the rising sun , alternately revealed and hidden as they crossed from one face to another with first one peak throwing its dark bulk between them and then another . |
| 26 | They crossed from one side of London to the other . |
| 27 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 28 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 29 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 30 | In the bedlam of yelling and barking he danced from one foot to the other in a brief breathless panic . |