Example sentences of "[v-ing] [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 | The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side . |
| 4 | He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 8 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 12 | Lurching slowly from side to side , becoming faster and steadier , the Vimy rose into the air followed by cheers from the spectators and smiles from the Vickers team . |
| 13 | He raised a hand with abrupt , convulsive passion and stroked her cheek , long fingers smoothing eloquently from temple to chin in a gesture of helpless apology . |
| 14 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 15 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 16 | It screamed along the tunnels , its banshee-wail bouncing madly from stone to stone . |
| 17 | A grass snake swimming obligingly from island to bank in full view of watchers . |
| 18 | The tail of an all-black cat , severed and buried under the doorstep of a house , was considered to be a way of preventing all members of the family living there from succumbing to sickness and ill health . |
| 19 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 20 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 21 | In these last years of the war , he was simply continuing with his life , going on from day to day without much hope for the future . |
| 22 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 23 | But plants left to seed have their own beauty , the seed-heads turning gradually from green to orange to rusty brown , sometimes reaching a height of 5ft , tracing delicate patterns against the sky . |
| 24 | It was all to do with the silence , and the wine stain — turning now from red to black as it spread and seeped . |
| 25 | Going back the other way , those needles which just knitted will rest and only the other ones will knit ; for example , going from right to left the first and alternate needles KNIT , going back from left to right , the second and alternate needles knit . |
| 26 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 27 | — A submissive spirit might be patient , a strong understanding would supply resolution , but here was something more ; here was that elasticity of mind , that disposition to be comforted , that power of turning readily from evil to good , and of finding employment which carried her out of herself , which was from Nature alone . |
| 28 | She flinched , her head moving slowly from side to side , but more in denial of what was coming next than in answer to his question . |
| 29 | Perhaps we should think about it , instead of drifting on from day to day . |
| 30 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |