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

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1 And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes .
2 Examination methods and timetables naturally differ from course to course but , in general , candidates are assessed both on written examinations and on course work during the year .
3 The strategies naturally varied from case to case , but all addressed the broad goals outlined above and all included a publicity programme of meetings , brochures and media coverage .
4 The interesting fact to note is that dinosaurs soon benefited from bipedality in the same way humans later did — better vision .
5 Acute haemolytic crises usually result from exposure to oxidant drugs , fava beans , bacterial or viral infections , or severe acidosis — for example , diabetic ketoacidosis .
6 In Zvornik 's empty streets , a ragbag collection of Serbian fighters edgily dash from doorway to doorway to avoid sniper fire .
7 For one thing he certainly over-states it when he says that pleasure always comes from satisfaction of an antecedent desire for something other than pleasure .
8 ‘ Pole is important , even if the statistics show that no more than 50 per cent of the winners here started from pole in the last 10 years , ’ he said .
9 No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school !
10 In sum , their duties probably varied from place to place and from time to time , although there was always likely to be a strong police element , especially in those areas on or near the frontiers where military government was paramount and where the natives enjoyed only limited autonomy .
11 Architecture also differs from language in its strict observation of its own rules and conventions , and in its sense of detail .
12 Just as Coleridge in 1796 abandoned political life in dismay , so Wordsworth now turned from politics in search of another version of his friend 's ‘ deep Sabbath of meek self-content ’ .
13 The famous and high-born simply moved from room to room , inclining their heads or smiling as they acknowledged their friends and acquaintances .
14 The larger eddies , which do play a role in the generation of the Reynolds stress , must be more characteristic of the particular flow , since the Reynolds stress distribution necessarily varies from flow to flow .
15 For instance , I remember him back at Troon eleven years later going from bunker to bunker at the postage Stamp like a lost man — — at the same time as Gene Sarazen got a hole-in-one there .
16 Police believe British spy Ian Spiro cold-bloodedly walked from bedroom to bedroom and murdered them .
17 The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land .
18 Variations obviously occur from village to village and from area to area , so that no claim is made that what follows in this chapter applies to each and every village in England .
19 The superintendent had fallen asleep during the journey , her head gently rolling from side to side against the car seat , her front teeth prominent in her open mouth as she breathed through her nose .
20 Its found some doctors walk up to eighteen miles every day just getting from patient to patient .
21 By the time I was in sight of Granpa 's pitch my grin already stretched from ear to ear .
22 The proportion of adolescents among the female population married or in union varies greatly among developing countries and , depending on local traditions , their problems and the perception of these problems also vary from country to country .
23 Receptive field properties also differ from area to area .
24 For the Liberal Democrats , Mr David Steel said : ‘ The feelings of people at what happened last night really vary from unease to repugnance that a British government should stoop to use a device which we have consistently condemned in others — namely the knock on the door in the middle of the night . ’
25 He pointed to ‘ Pergoles ’ and she lifted her head again to look from side to side .
26 In every Shakespeare play where prose appears ( as it does in all but four : Henry VI , Parts 1 and 3 ; King John ; Richard II ) , characters constantly move from prose to verse , or from verse to prose , and back again .
27 By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture .
28 However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France .
29 People often turn from fiction to biography as they get older , I expect because the real world comes to seem more mysterious and more valuable to them the closer they come to leaving it .
30 All the yards now employ from order to order with minimal ‘ retained ’ work forces .
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