Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet economy has gone from bad to chaos . |
| 2 | We are the ones miserably fiddling with our shell necklaces while we wait to turn from anaemic to lobster . |
| 3 | They 'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat . |
| 4 | A lady in Pierremont shared our misgivings ‘ in its present form the scheme is in a non-starter in Darlington ’ and a chap round Carmel Road way told how he 'd tried in vain to interest either police or neighbours in a scheme . |
| 5 | Although it was probably inevitable that whatever the political flavour of the government of the day some form of national pattern of cash limits would have had to applied to expenditure on public sector higher education , 4 the practical effects of this political decision turned out to be both complex and capricious , and had two important consequences . |
| 6 | All councils will have to respond in public to criticism from auditors . |
| 7 | He had served as commissary to Edmund Scambler [ q.v. ] , bishop of Norwich , and continued his career as ecclesiastical administrator until his death . |