Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matches were played against local hearing teams , and after a promising start , the club almost folded in 1879 following a disastrous season but was re-organised , and has since gone from strength to strength , with various changes in name . |
| 2 | On Paul 's first day he arranged four appointments for our consultants with prospective clients , and has since gone from strength to strength . |
| 3 | Well I also was er , er , a producer then in the B B C and so he and I had some cheerful encounters at that time , since when he has obviously gone from strength to strength . |
| 4 | Not only is the extent of deforestation variable but the reasons why it is occurring also vary from region to region . |
| 5 | He was the man who knew all the best positions and though he has now retired from football to run golfing weekends at places like the Meon Valley Hotel Golf and Country Club near Winchester , he assures you that once you 've scored five times a night you never forget it . |
| 6 | As a result of this rule , and many carefully orchestrated publicity campaigns , the motor industry 's image has now changed from polluter to pal of the earth . |
| 7 | And the finger 's stood there and she 's had to stand there shaking from head to foot |
| 8 | It is hoped to issue further sets from time to time . |
| 9 | George 's wits began to return and he realised that he would have soon passed from sleep to death , if Elizabeth had not found him . |
| 10 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 11 | And Mogg believes that the difficulty of ordering tea in the Waldorf Hotel these days is symptomatic of the decline of an empire , a feeling I 'm sure we 've all experienced from time to time . |
| 12 | Detectives say Spiro , 46 , had calmly walked from bedroom to bedroom at his rented home near San Diego and killed his family ‘ execution-style ’ . |
| 13 | Where the Children 's Bureau had now advanced from restraint to diversion as a treatment for masturbation , Isaacs was giving a brief account of Oedipal conflict and advising parents that they were ‘ far more likely to do harm by rushing in to scold or correct than by leaving the child to deal with it himself — in a general atmosphere of calm goodwill ’ , and was citing Dr Ernest Jones in her support . |
| 14 | The space between the fly sheet and inner dome also plays a major part in eradicating condensation , a problem which we have all encountered from time to time . |
| 15 | In the Fifties the things you bought to throw away ranged from Kleenex to baking tins , from razors with only one blade ( supplied by vending machine ) to watches not worth repairing . |
| 16 | Newspapers have traditionally moved from profitability to loss and vice versa at regular intervals as their costs and revenues — always delicately balanced — have come under attack from a variety of quarters . |
| 17 | Second , even where there are annual elections , the actual wards in which ordinary vacancies occur often differ from year to year . |
| 18 | So I would lie upstairs drifting from pain to the drugs . |
| 19 | You have doubtless heard from time to time some little of my movements on this side of the globe and if I have not written more fully and frequently to my friends in England I trust this will be attributed to the very pressing engagements which have fully occupied my time and mind . |