Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] from one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newcomers often found work in areas that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor and Corporation , in what had once been rural manors ; they moved constantly from one district to another . |
| 2 | Hitch moved swiftly from one body to the other , firing another shot into the head of each man . |
| 3 | It just as is the want of sheep , it just wandered away from one clump of grass to another , losing all sense of time and direction until it , was lost ! |
| 4 | The porter moved restlessly from one foot to another . |
| 5 | IMC employees — risk analysts and financial assessors like clones in their sharp plastic business suits and laced necklines — moved busily from one station to another , checking systems as the time for launch approached . |
| 6 | He stood up and in his turn moved sharply from one side of the room to the other . |
| 7 | His body flopped brokenly from one strut to the next , cartwheeling ungainly to crump on the earth . |
| 8 | In the country at large there was some pronounced hostility but it came mainly from one quarter and on one issue — churchmen and the religious settlement . |
| 9 | So ideas passed rapidly from one institution to another and promising discoveries stimulated the development of new advances in many different quarters , sometimes with remarkably fruitful results . |
| 10 | The snow was coming down in thick flakes , adding to the unreal appearance as they chugged slowly from one bank to the other , and she was delighted that they stopped at every single stop . |
| 11 | The country was large , by Medieval standards , the climate and peoples differed greatly from one region to another . |
| 12 | Often I climbed away from one bolt without being able to see where the next one was , and this added a new dimension to route finding . |
| 13 | For if property values and social status north of St Giles shaded imperceptibly from one microclimate to another , the other side of the Cherwell they just dropped out of sight . |
| 14 | She found that ‘ the distribution of pronoun versus full noun phrase differed dramatically from one discourse type to the next ’ ( 1986 : 27 ) . |
| 15 | In one case the court confirmed the Commission 's finding that there was evidence of abusive conduct where United Brands ' prices in certain banana markets within the EC were excessive in relation to the economic value of the product supplied and that they differed considerably from one EC market to another . |
| 16 | Torpedo-shaped glass lifts offered noiseless access to the different levels , on one of which a pianist sat at a grand piano playing classical music while an enormous golden pendulum suspended from the roof swung slowly from one side of the atrium to the other . |
| 17 | He studied the Gascon 's dark effete face and the jewel-encrusted pearl which swung arrogantly from one ear lobe . |
| 18 | As the level of delegation increased , so too had the level of consultation that took place in order to identify and prioritise spending needs , although the degree of consultation varied greatly from one school to another . |
| 19 | He glided effortlessly from one side of the hill to the other with total confidence , even having time to make jokes while trying to pluck a twig from a bush . |
| 20 | While the relative share of employment and social security benefits varied enormously from one country to another as sources of income for lone parents , maintenance payments generally contributed little to the income of lone parents , even if widows are excluded . |
| 21 | Possibly goods may have been smuggled out without paying duty , although this last should not be exaggerated , because there is no reason to believe that the level of smuggling varied markedly from one period to another , and because with bulk commodities the possible gains were small and the risk of penalties was high ( 66 , pp.21–5 ) . |
| 22 | In the century since 1066 England and Normandy had become two parts of a single political society , linked rather than separated by the Channel , the main road of the Anglo-Norman realm Men and women crossed easily from one side to the other ; many wealthy families held lands in both England and Normandy ; and even though sharp-red language snobs were soon able to mock French " spoken after the manner of Marlborough " , people at the upper levels of society in fact spoke the same language , Norman French , on both sides . |
| 23 | The young soldier looked carefully from one man to the other . |
| 24 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 25 | You all saw that to begin with the tape measure stretched across from one side to the other , exactly . |
| 26 | Instead the pattern jumped suddenly from one picture to the other as the voltage was varied . |