Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] from [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven ;
2 The poet 's eyes ( according to Shakespeare 's Theseus ) " in a fine frenzy rolling , doth glance from heaven to earth , from earth to heaven " .
3 ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was .
4 The enduring relationship is treated as a perpetual debt and is made manifest from time to time by continued gift-giving throughout the duration of the marriage .
5 Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time .
6 Commitments do exist from year to year and constant re-evaluation is impractical and might prove more destructive than constructive .
7 Spokespeople will not confirm this , but point out that numbers do fluctuate from year to year .
8 I never established anything like a friendship with him , but our paths did cross from time to time .
9 Those who did read from end to end discovered that , far from giving its blessing to ever-expanding production and consumption , it pointed out its futility .
10 I always find much of interest in each issue as it reaches me and if I do criticise from time to time , this is meant to be constructive and helpful .
11 One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction .
12 The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’
13 Although it once guaranteed good quality , now no one company holds an exclusive licence over the use of the name and the quality of the knives really does vary from brand to brand .
14 This range of hearing does vary from person to person .
15 Thank you , Mr Chairman , erm , I 'm here to say , it 's quite true to say that it does vary from year to year , on er , what our programme is , but er , we we also have to face it , that er , com compared with some other areas , both east midlands and nationally , we do not have the traffic , and this does go against our for T A. Er , the the traffic on our roads
16 But it does vary from year to year .
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