Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the weather was nice I transferred the goldfish to my garden pond where he stayed from May to September . |
| 2 | Where it is excessive , or where it varies from point to point , problems occur , resulting in cracking , disfigurement and detachment of the walls . |
| 3 | To be specific about it , many of the Christian circles that I enter from time to time do not believe in the Devil . |
| 4 | The ship 's company was based in London but the ship was hired to foreign countries and although she sailed from Australia to Canada , all Stan saw was the engine room . |
| 5 | Karen brushed them off with talk of a ‘ little twinge ’ that she got from time to time and rose briskly to clear the table . |
| 6 | It appears that one progresses from life to life with the same nucleus of people around one — although casual acquaintances on the outer edge may change . |
| 7 | Natural movement which is also a pleasure rather than a chore is infinitely superior to indoor exercises with weights , or exercise that is so taxing that one aches from head to toe afterwards . |
| 8 | It is by no means clear that many newcomers are even aware of the feelings that they arouse from time to time in the local population . |
| 9 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 10 | They were grand princesses dancing superbly throughout , but never once suggested that they grew from girl to woman by any change of expression or ways of dancing . |
| 11 | The Conservative philosophy fitted , so they moved from Labour to Conservative . ’ |
| 12 | There is a very high proportion of police officers on the beat , although it varies from force to force . |
| 13 | What I was prepared to believe now , although it changed from day to day , was something frightening and surprising and new . |
| 14 | Note that it slopes from front to back , higher at the rear . |
| 15 | While British Standards ( BSi ) sets minimum requirements for the number of facilities for men and women , the provision of public lavatories is the responsibility of local authorities , so it differs from area to area . |
| 16 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 17 | Ludo and I shuffle from pub to pub , table to table , like the Salvation Army rattling tins . |
| 18 | If I go from hero to bum , so be it . ’ |
| 19 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 20 | Her legs began to hurt and she considered from time to time the possibility of varicose veins . |
| 21 | He had told a friend not long before , ‘ If you walked from Humber to Severn and dodged Derby , you would not find a bishop who can read or write ’ . |
| 22 | I mean anomalies and there 's different prices if you go from Cardiff to Bristol it 'll cost you X amount if you go Bristol to Cardiff it costs you something different . |
| 23 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 24 | The only thing that changes is our bodily condition , soul comes into the body and we go from birth to death , and how I look at it is that death is like taking your suit off . |
| 25 | And mis the the constructors here they loaned us different equipment and we worked from Monday to Friday getting the things ready we worked all day Saturday doing the show , and we worked all day Sunday clearing the field ! |
| 26 | When newspapers first speculated that Lady Dartmouth was to replace the Earl of Dartmouth with the divorced Earl Spencer , a then-unknown Lady Sarah Spencer gave the memorable quote : ‘ Since my grandfather died last June and we moved from Sandringham to Althorp Park , Lady Dartmouth has been an all-too-frequent visitor . ’ |
| 27 | Erm I would like to take advantage of the things that I have actually done myself as a member of the Stansted Airport Consultative Committee and also as a member of Advisory Committee because I am Stansted representative and we meet from time to time and as apart from transport . |
| 28 | If we go from left to right along a row of p-block elements , the effect of increasing mass is outweighed by the increasing bond strength , and frequencies increase ( see Table 5.7 ) . |
| 29 | The boat had a crew of twenty , and they laboured from dawn to dusk in two shifts to keep the clumsy craft moving against the current , poling it away from sand-bars and small , reed-covered islands . |
| 30 | They are like the metaphorical gender attributions we examined at the beginning of this chapter , in that they follow no single principle , they do not remain constant from one context to another and they vary from culture to culture . |