Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 2 | FOR an economy that is supposedly manipulated to make it impervious to market forces , Japan has moved remarkably rapidly from joy to gloom . |
| 3 | ( I can assure you that this book was not written straight through from beginning to end ! ) |
| 4 | STROKE firmly upwards from knee to waist with your hands or a massage gadget . |
| 5 | Other water-loving species turned up here from time to time also — Mimulus and forget-me-not and Water Speedwell . |
| 6 | It leads straight up from hell to that turret . |
| 7 | It 's great fun going out straight from work to dance the night away or for a hot date . |
| 8 | It has to be emphasised that the numbers of casualties often vary quite considerably from year to year as a result of weather and a number of external factors which affect the amount of travel . |
| 9 | FOR example : Do 100 house-estate infills vary that much from district TO district ? |
| 10 | The spirit of brotherhood travels not only from country to country but also from time to time . |
| 11 | There was a moment 's quietness , as of a grace before a meal , and then the mare stepped sweetly forward from leg to hand . |
| 12 | Having collected for Wings Appeal at a number of sites ( railway stations , house-to-house , town centres , London ) over the years it is apparent that the collection rate per hour varies quite significantly from point to point . |
| 13 | If the tail swings very vigorously from side to side it usually means that the animal is about to attack , if it can summon up that last ounce of aggression . |
| 14 | The firm still refers clients to Deacon Gray and Sandra goes back there from time to time for training courses . |
| 15 | These practices , they further note , ‘ varied not only from region to region and from time to time but also from social class to social class , so that their impact on field systems and rural settlement patterns is complex and not easy to determine . ’ |
| 16 | Roll up carefully from head to tail and secure with one or two cocktail sticks . |
| 17 | These are stars which flare up suddenly from near-invisibility to prominence , remaining bright for a few days , weeks or months before fading again . |
| 18 | Not all fathers or mothers were converted so easily from tyranny to benevolence , but , by the 1740s , a new attitude to children was spreading steadily among the middle and upper classes . |
| 19 | Bettelheim has said in The uses of enchantment ( 1976 , p.3 ) that ‘ If we hope to live not just from moment to moment , but in true consciousness of our existence , then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives ’ . |
| 20 | It has usually occurred by the fourteenth year but the age may vary very considerably from woman to woman and with bodily circumstance . |
| 21 | Each tier is pierced by a symmetrical row of windows , the windows varying very slightly from floor to floor — double with rectangle and square , as before but with arched , decorated lintel , single with triangular lintel — and the whole is finished with a stone balustrade . |
| 22 | Freud thought that there is a difference between neurotics and primitives , which is , that primitives proceed very often from thought to deed . |
| 23 | Not the specific details , because domestic life is changing so radically from decade to decade : its structure is also strongly influenced by patterns of child care and external work . |
| 24 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 25 | Emily was rolling almost rhythmically from side to side in the bed with her arms crossed over her breasts and her eyes wide open and staring . |
| 26 | Covered all over from head to toe , |
| 27 | I write all right from night to night , |
| 28 | He shifted about anxiously from foot to foot . |
| 29 | We used to take a basket and trudge over a mile to a huge horse chestnut tree that grew just past Petersfinger on the Southampton Road , its branches stretching right across from side to side . |
| 30 | And if Unix is destined to dominate mainstream data processing , does n't it make sense to run it at the desktop as well — why have two different — and ultimately competing — operating system worlds when the expressed ideal is to have everything working seamlessly together from desktop to the multiprocessor servers that threaten to supplant the monolithic mainframe ? |