Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [num] [noun sg] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 2 | This criticism depends on a view about what competence with a concept is , a view about what it is to know the meaning of a word , about what it is to know the rules for the application of that word , rules that take you from one instance to the next . |
| 3 | Tipping them from one bucket to the next ? |
| 4 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 5 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 6 | Bassett said : ‘ It 's my fault for messing him about , switching him from one flank to the other then playing him through the middle . |
| 7 | She was finding it increasingly difficult to sit here , in his home , trying to cope with the spectrum of emotions that chased pell-mell through her from one moment to the next , and at the same time evince a polite interest in Richard 's remarks . |
| 8 | it 's getting it from one place to the next |
| 9 | Okay so you 'll be doing all these how far is it from one place to the other . |
| 10 | I shifted it from one hand to the other in an attempt to ease the pain in my back and shoulders . |
| 11 | But yesterday it was seen in Chaura and in Chhuma , running through the outskirts of the villages : and the day before , a dog like that had chased a sheep in Pere , and clutched it by the neck , shaking it from one side to the other until it died of shock . |
| 12 | The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold . |