Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another .
2 As a matter of practice , moneys paid into the account would be transferred from it to the account in Scotland if not immediately , then certainly within a matter of days , for amalgamation with the general fund .
3 In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee .
4 He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen .
5 Lesley walked to the microphone as the chairperson retreated from it to a spatter of applause .
6 Unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next days , you will be held as admitting liability ’ .
7 He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen .
8 For the period , a remarkable sense of town planning is shown here with the main square , the Malostranské náměstí or Lesser Town Square in the centre and , running from it to the castle , the wide Nerudova Street , and Mostecká , leading to Charles Bridge and Letenská .
9 Caroline looked from him to the wall .
10 Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn .
11 He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement .
12 Maxim looked from her to the marble and back .
13 In a situation where it is required to perform some task , the reaction time can be seen to include the following : ( a ) the time taken by the stimulus to activate the sense organ and for impulses to travel from it to the brain , ( b ) the central processes concerned with the identification of the signal and the response to it , and ( c ) the time required to energise the muscles and produce the correct response .
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