Example sentences of "[verb] from [noun] to [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 2 | a positive or negative image transposed from left to right as in a mirror reflection of the original . |
| 3 | He also spent many hours playing stringed instruments of all kinds , persevering from morning to night until he became marvellously adept at them . |
| 4 | Resting on three stones above the flames was a large copper pan full of milk , which Sigarup stirred from time to time as it was boiling . |
| 5 | Later , years and enchanted years later , it seemed , she lay enfolded in the hard warmth of his arms , shivering from time to time as memory of the passion and intensity of their lovemaking rocked her slender frame all over again . |
| 6 | Attention to detail , like holding one 's briefcase in the left hand so that the right can be used for the handshake , removes the possibility of an awkward moment when a briefcase is clumsily transferred from right to left as the buyer extends his hand in greeting . |
| 7 | Even then I jinked from side to side as I pulled the hood back . |
| 8 | The one I have chosen is this — brief , informal letters , written from time to time as our work proceeds , in a plain , straightforward style , as it might be to a friend . |
| 9 | There 's incidental impotence which occurs from time to time when a man fails to get an erection after having had too much to drink , for example ; or through tiredness , worry or anxiety . |
| 10 | HIV is not easily transmitted from person to person except by ‘ high risk ’ activity . |
| 11 | Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went . |
| 12 | Alternatively cards may be moved from pile to pile if they match the suit of the card underneath and have a lower face value . |
| 13 | He went over to the spot where Allen had hidden , ‘ … and then moved from tree to tree until he reached the path about twenty paces ahead . |
| 14 | Heavy reclamation walls were built from time to time as the docks were extended seawards and today , the dock estate lies entirely on land reclaimed from the foreshore . |
| 15 | Even so , he continued in royal service , acting from time to time as royal negotiator and adviser , notably at times of crisis . |
| 16 | In a sentence such as ( 1b ) not only does did situate its lexical supplement ( eat ) in time like any other auxiliary , but it also evokes all the time necessary to actualize the infinitive 's lexeme and so produces a representation of an event seen from beginning to end as something that really takes its place in time . |
| 17 | Just as each child has to learn a series of lessons and skills as he passes from class to class until he is ready to enter the senior school , so I believe that the spirit too is given a series of lessons to learn before it is free of earthly life altogether and able to progress in whatever is the equivalent of its senior school . |
| 18 | The definition of Unemployment can , and does , vary from scheme to scheme though generally would fall within one of the following wordings : — |
| 19 | The diet and therefore the isotopic composition analyses vary from region to region as well as from country to country , and this has important implications for policing the current ivory trade bans . |
| 20 | It was , moreover , a hope which the French encouraged from time to time although what was achieved seemed always to be less than what was promised . |
| 21 | He was employed on the reconstruction of the bishop of Winchester 's palace at Wolvesey , and he acted from time to time as architect as well as builder . |
| 22 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the bureaucracy , both civil and military , grows from strength to strength because it does fulfil the requirements of the post colonial state . |
| 24 | Because it 's black as pitch and blowing like blazes , and any man moving on deck will be washed from Hull to Hackney before he can cast a rope from a pin . |
| 25 | You can work from left to right as you prefer . |
| 26 | If the argument starts with numeric characters ( with or without a preceding sign ) , VAL will work from left to right until it meets a non numeric character . |
| 27 | He remained nearly half an hour turning from side to side as though watching some great action which extended over the whole visible forest . |
| 28 | In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ Jane Austen describes a society in which women are considered to be chattels — independent-minded chattels , certainly , but nevertheless objects to be handed from man to man until they are suitably married . |
| 29 | If we spot the fish we can cast directly to them with strong tackle and a big bait , or we can move from swim to swim until we find where a big barbel or two are feeding . |
| 30 | The cud is thoroughly masticated — the jaw can move from side to side as well as up and down — before it is finally passed into the digestive system where the job of extracting everything of nutritive value will be carried out . |