Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to contact you from time to time but you always seemed to be somewhere else . ’ |
| 2 | She lingered over her task , and it was an age before she 'd covered him from head to toe : finishing her work with nimble fingers on his risen member . |
| 3 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 4 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 5 | Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results . |
| 6 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 7 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 8 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 9 | His father had followed him from room to room , half a dozen strides behind him all through that late afternoon . |