Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 2 | In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica . |
| 3 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 4 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |
| 5 | The climate differs less from north to south and distances are shorter . |
| 6 | Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 8 | Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant . |
| 9 | We watched as Christopher 's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal 's fur . |
| 10 | As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil . |
| 11 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 12 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 13 | The Captain looks constantly from side to side , ready to react to anything suspicious . |
| 14 | This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client . |
| 15 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 16 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 17 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 18 | As the flow of water changed rapidly from summer to winter the streams and rivers deposited their loads again , leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand in some places and fine mud in other places . |
| 19 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 20 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 21 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 22 | These arguments yield the curve in Fig. 6.1 , sloping downwards from left to right , becoming less and less steep and cutting the horizontal axis at the natural unemployment percentage . |
| 23 | They had to stand practically from morning to night outside the big department stores and theatres with heavy collecting boxes , asking for donations . |
| 24 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 25 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 26 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a disaster to adopt a policy that changed almost from hour to hour under Labour , with no constancy or purpose of any sort ? |
| 27 | Although the WHO has called for a worldwide effort to stop AIDS , responses to the epidemic have varied considerably from country to country . |
| 28 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 29 | Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics . |
| 30 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |