Example sentences of "passed [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to whale scientist Dr Roger Payne , the toxins are passed from generation to generation through the mother 's milk , with the toxin concentration increasing with each successive generation , eventually threatening the species with extinction . |
| 2 | Dr Julian Hopkin says that although the altered gene is passed from generation to generation by both sexes , the mother appears to be the final passage for the development of the illness . |
| 3 | A little scared , very curious , ravenously hungry and ready to argue the toss with anyone after being passed from person to person like so many yards of parcelled muslin . |
| 4 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 5 | Since that distant time the Runefangs have served the counts of the Empire , having passed from ruler to ruler until the present day . |
| 6 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
| 7 | The single stone with which it was set , opaque in browns and golds , passed from hand to hand like a glowing eye . |
| 8 | Diseased organs are passed from doctor to doctor on plastic lunch trays . |