Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just went from person to person and asked if they needed help when a policeman asked me to come and take a look at Johnathan . |
| 2 | I once walked from Shieldaig to Annat long before the two communities were linked by a modern road , a woodland path pointing the way . |
| 3 | Yes , I 've got a guy in , well I 've got a couple of people on the shift , and er , the more you give them to do , they just love it , but the thing about it is , I think the mistake that I certainly make from time to time , is the more you give them to do , you 've sort of erm , taken something from somebody else , and then it , it 's trying to keep that erm , trying to keep that more level , and fairness to everybody . |
| 4 | ‘ We surprise clients by recommending them not to proceed from time to time , ’ he says . |
| 5 | Among them was a young officer who was riding a mule ( which stubbornly stopped from time to time ) and roaring with laughter . |
| 6 | In March 1848 Europe witnessed a surge of revolutionary activity which quickly spread from France to Italy and Vienna and , of course , Pest . |
| 7 | It depends on the individual 's attitudes , needs and priorities which clearly vary from person to person and from time to time . |
| 8 | The Emperor 's New Mind ( Roger Penrose , Vintage , £6.90 ) , winner of the 1990 Science Book prize ( which interestingly jumps from £1,000 to £10,000 next year ) , covers the spheres of computers , the mind and cosmology . |
| 9 | George , sister Alison and father George senior work with brewer John to produce six brews which now sell from Cornwall to Alloa . |
| 10 | I really had thought she would go berserk , but she just trembled from head to toe , and was only calmed slightly by the sound of my voice . |
| 11 | Pauline Hoare knows of women who regularly travel from Kent to Durham to visit their husbands , and if a crime was committed in Scotland it would be normal to find families based in England or Wales having to travel up to Scottish prisons . |
| 12 | Likewise , unlike the Labour party , my party and its predecessor have had no difficulty with the proposition that if we create a Scottish Parliament with the kind of effective deveolution which the Bill proposes , the case for the retention of the same numbers of Members of Parliament who presently come from Scotland to Westminster would be weakened . |
| 13 | And she even dropped from time to time the odd and flattering hint about the unique nature of her interest . |
| 14 | As speakers switch , so the deictic centre , on which the rest of the deictic system hangs , is itself abruptly moved from participant to participant . |
| 15 | Mr Michael Bates ( C ) , aged 31 , who recently moved from Gateshead to Marton with his wife Carole and sons Matthew , four , and Alexander , two . |
| 16 | George Burley presently came into the dining car and spoke for a while to Nell , who subsequently went from table to table , clipboard in place , repeating what he 'd said . |
| 17 | This extremely lazy lifestyle was one long yawn from dawn to dusk . |
| 18 | he certainly found me and from there we just went from strength to strength and erm were still have together . |
| 19 | If we now turn from atheists to theists , we find that the forms of theism can be categorised in a similar manner . |
| 20 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 21 | They soon progressed from Christmas to holidays … travel … world events … and then to food , as they laughingly divided the two plump triangles of cake and argued as to which was the nicer . |
| 22 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 23 | Yet he just went from strength to strength . |
| 24 | It also varies from place to place . |
| 25 | It therefore varies from laboratory to laboratory , but is typically in the region of 40,000 years . |