Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] from one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No one could identify the problem — indeed , the symptoms varied considerably and seemed to travel from one part of her body to another .
2 As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit .
3 Betty Leeds began to hop from one foot to another , a sure sign of-agitation .
4 He began to step from one foot to the other , more like a boxer than ever .
5 She started to hop from one foot to the other .
6 Lieutenant Smith failed to return from one recce , and it was later learnt that he and his companion , Lance-Corporal C. Woodhouse , had capsized in heavy surf , losing their paddles .
7 And we had to go from one pub to the other to look for him .
8 They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order .
9 But even as she went over all this she continued to hurry from one section of the store to another , searching , her heart thumping .
10 Quays were extended at the beginning of the nineteenth century by John Rennie , coal docks and graving docks followed , while fishing harbours and piers continued to prosper from one century to another .
11 Drama had been immeasurably improved by escaping the demands of live transmission when actors had to rush from one scene to the next .
12 The report had initially been commissioned by Arthur Greenwood when he was in the War Cabinet : its purpose had been to recommend measures to consolidate existing welfare provisions , which tended to vary from one scheme to another .
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