Example sentences of "went from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex James in the 1930s had not been averse to appearing at the odd night-club , but Best 's moves were tracked by a posse of desperate journalists as he went from bed to boutique , from discothèque to dressing-room . |
| 2 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 3 | This sort of interviewing could well be characteristic of a community survey where the researcher went from person to person linking up kinship networks , occupational groups , recreational groups , religious bodies , and so on . |
| 4 | She went from person to person , taking care to avoid Uncle Lionel . |
| 5 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 6 | The angel , disguised as an old man , went from door to door begging for food and drink . |
| 7 | For a week we went from door to door , saying goodbye to all the families we considered as our own because we had lived among them so long . |
| 8 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 9 | He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class . |
| 10 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 11 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 12 | Under the loose sleeve was a red wound that went from elbow to wrist . |
| 13 | After that he went from chamber to chamber , from corridor to corridor , looking for other canvases which might fit the verse from the Apocalypse . |
| 14 | As Little Billy went from window to window , the Minpins followed him , clustering round and smiling at his exclamations of wonder . |
| 15 | ‘ Supplies went from famine to feast ; there will be quite a few copies washing around , ’ concluded John Hitchin . |
| 16 | Otherwise , she went from firm to firm , wherever there was work , and usually managed to find some . |
| 17 | Slowly I went from pot to pot , pot to pot , giving each flower its drink of water . |
| 18 | The water went from calm to storm-tossed and the canoe began to jog sickeningly . |
| 19 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 20 | As the disembarked men were being lined up to march , a detail of mercenaries went from heap to heap , spiking those who still lived and removing what valuables they could discover . |
| 21 | The main room had low ceiling beams ; a rough oak pillar , square-sectioned and glossy with age , went from floor to cross-beam , partitioning the space . |
| 22 | The mechanic watched him out of the comer of his eye as he went from car to car , making an elaborate pretence of examining the interiors . |
| 23 | The boy 's eyes went from face to face . |
| 24 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 25 | We went from city to city , from bush town to bush town , civic reception after civic reception given by local mayors with chains around their necks , musical welcomes with God Save the King and For They Are Jolly Good Fellows , and Plum Warner uttering platitude after platitude about the ideals of cricket and British fair-play , until the subject became uncomfortable and undiplomatic . |
| 26 | His theatrical reputation went from strength to strength . |
| 27 | For several years the business went from strength to strength . |
| 28 | The railcoaches however , went from strength to strength and became the work-horses of the Blackpool system . |
| 29 | I did all I could for that plant , but while my White Poplar in the garden went from strength to strength , sprouting new branches and hundreds of suckers that came up like a forest over all the lawn , the fern bought on that memorable day when the second deluge had fallen just faded away before my eyes . |
| 30 | In a year when many other small car makers were struggling ( and some failing ) , TVR went from strength to strength with a sensational new car and a brand new engine ’ |