Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] from one [noun] " 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 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 6 | I chased from one exit to the next . |
| 7 | I found it very useful when working with desktop applications as I jumped from one application to another with the minimum of fuss . |
| 8 | Sarah had never seen anything look so lovely , and she danced from one end of the table to the other to admire it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She walked from one end of the hall to the other ; no Edward . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | With almond-shaped eyes thickly outlined in black she looked from one face to another , Mada Joyce , appreciating the situation immediately , pulled Martha forward . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She went from one man to the other . |
| 15 | One , Dr Douglas Rossdale , said : ‘ If she did not get the answer she wanted from one doctor she would go to another . ’ |
| 16 | During the next four weeks we steamed from one port to another , unloading and loading a variety of cargoes . |
| 17 | In surveying the discovery of penicillin , we moved from one domain of science to another . |
| 18 | We went from one D to the other with six passes ; it was a superb goal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They hopped from one foot to another to keep warm in their baggy knickers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Leigh concluded that the brooches he considered were the products of a single workshop although there may , yet , be other reasons for the degrees of similarity he observed ; it is these which are actually being assessed , not whether or not they originated from one workshop . |
| 23 | The tailors sat cross-legged , on benches , and er the machinists , there were four machines on one big bench , th they went from one belt . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They crossed from one side of London to the other . |
| 26 | Additionally , a very few people had failed to get what they wanted from one source , so had used some other source instead . |
| 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 | This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's . |