Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 2 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 3 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 4 | A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells . |
| 5 | The miners in the colliery retreated before the flood of dark brown slurry which was advancing through the underground roads and filling them from floor to roof . |
| 6 | Yes and the kids can drop round and see her from time to time . |
| 7 | He is a prominent member of the Christadelphians sect which mounted the exhibition and takes it from town to town , week by week , year by year . |
| 8 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Hit it , ’ he said , seizing el grip with a painful vice and swinging it from side to side . |
| 10 | When the meat had shrivelled and curled they waved the sticks in the cold air for a minute , unskewered it , blew off the coating of ash and tossed it from hand to hand until it was cool enough to eat . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
| 12 | Keep a list of things you worry about and analyse it from time to time to see what your worrying changed . |
| 13 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 14 | The huer 's job , after announcing the sighting of the shoal , was to guide his own boat to the fish , signalling East or West by removing his coat and waving it from side to side and , when the boat was on top of the shoal , by placing his coat on his telescope and holding it aloft . |
| 15 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |