Example sentences of "[adv] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 2 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 3 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 4 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 5 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 6 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 7 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 8 | There are great difficulties in assessing health effects , however , since exposure varies greatly from house to house within small neighbourhoods . |
| 9 | There will then be taboos against appearing " naked " in inappropriate situations , though just what counts as either naked or inappropriate varies greatly from place to place for no very obvious or logical reason . |
| 10 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 11 | However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables . |
| 12 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 13 | If you are going to try to convince a reader that something wildly unlikely has taken place then one useful tool at your command is to produce a story that sweeps the reader along from incident to incident in a headlong tumble . |
| 14 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 15 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 16 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 17 | Next , he sang about ‘ Wine Flowing in the Garden of Eden ’ and then got the audience swaying gently from side to side to the tune of ‘ My Jane , my Pretty Jane ’ . |
| 18 | When you are kneading , move gently from side to side in time with your hands . |
| 19 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 20 | Several species , ( such as C. reflexa ) carry over from season to season by regenerating new vegetative buds from usually obscure remnants of the previous season still embedded in the host . |
| 21 | Measurements suggest that the crossing over from production to destruction of O 3 occurs at an altitude of 28km . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may adjourn any meeting held by virtue of subsection ( 1 ) above from time to time during the period of one month next following the first day of such meeting , but no longer . |
| 23 | As in his previous adventure , the weed helped save him ; he made his way laboriously from tuft to tuft of the blackened reeds that thrust their way through the mud and ice . |
| 24 | The atmosphere of bonhomie was suddenly gone , and in the frosty silence that followed , Harry Pascoe swayed deliberately from side to side in his chair , as if he were in his cabin aboard the Russell and a gale was blowing . |
| 25 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 26 | The exact movements vary from species to species but in a typical finch such as the chaffinch the body is turned towards the owl , the crown-feathers are raised , the legs are bent , the wings are slightly raised , and the body is jerked quickly from side to side in a crouched , bent-leg posture , while the tail flicks up and down . |
| 27 | High up on the other side of the square is a sign on which words pass rapidly from right to left across a bank of lights . |
| 28 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 29 | But plants left to seed have their own beauty , the seed-heads turning gradually from green to orange to rusty brown , sometimes reaching a height of 5ft , tracing delicate patterns against the sky . |
| 30 | He raised a hand with abrupt , convulsive passion and stroked her cheek , long fingers smoothing eloquently from temple to chin in a gesture of helpless apology . |