Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] from [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the motorist did NOT ( contrry to The Scotsman 's report ) spend any time looking for a parking space or walking from it to his destination . |
| 2 | Horses ' emotions can rapidly escalate or change from one to another . |
| 3 | I looked at Lily She seemed to me to be perceptibly hurt ; and just as another wild idea was beginning to run through my mind , that she really was an amnesiac , some beautiful amnesiac he had , somehow , literally and metaphorically laid his hands on , she gave me what was beyond any doubt a contemporary look , a look out of role — a quick , questioning glance that flicked from me to Conchis 's averted head and back again . |
| 4 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 5 | A generation ago these two were roughtly equally important , and walking from one to another was acceptable . |
| 6 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 7 | Other causes of distortion include our reliance on our own pet theory of personality ( ‘ Its worked well so far ’ ) , selective perception ( ‘ I know what I want to hear ; do n't confuse me with the facts ’ ) , the so-called halo effect — forming opinions on one piece of information and generalizing from it to other pieces of information ( e.g. ‘ She was brilliant in the Geneva post ; she 'll be brilliant wherever we send her ’ ) , or its opposite , the horns effect ( ‘ He was hopeless in Paris . |
| 8 | Rachel took a deep breath and glanced from one to the other then over her shoulder at the closed door of her sister 's ground-floor bedroom . |
| 9 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 10 | In that incomparable verse Racine surely articulates the classical and terrible conception that underlies also Virgil 's treatment of Dido : sexual passion , the erotic , understood as one undifferentiated energy running wild , fastening itself seemingly at random on this person or that one , and switching from one to another in a way that discredits all human vows of constancy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Denis hesitated and looked from one to the other , then he put the paten under Noreen 's chin . |
| 13 | I could therefore possess myself of my nephew by force if — ’ he paused for full effect and looked from one to another of the councillors ‘ — if , as Lord High Protector , I elected so to do . ’ |
| 14 | Jack cleared his throat and looked from one to the other . |
| 15 | Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste . |
| 16 | The awareness of God which is fragmentarily and partially there in all men was fully and perfectly formed in Jesus , and spreads from him to those who believe in him . |
| 17 | Fiver paid him no heed but looked from one to another among the rabbits . |