Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] from the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you looked up too long without blinking on a day when the sun was high and the blue saturated the sky evenly and deeply from the horizon to the zenith , and closed your eyes , what you saw then was fire , crisscrossed with rivulets of blood . |
| 2 | Using a compact model where waste is generated , also saves continuous trips back and forth from the kitchen to outside dustbins . |
| 3 | Joe sat on the wooden kitchen chair and watched Mrs Alice Carver flitting back and forth from the stove to the table , talking all the while . |
| 4 | Women 's claims to maintenance , however , are still derived less from their labour-market activities or the state and more from the men to whom they are married ( or with whom they cohabit ) . |
| 5 | Morton remained on his feet , swaying backwards and forwards from the balls to the heels of his shoes . |
| 6 | The JTS system failed to develop in the 1920s and 1930s and the STS , after early optimism , suffered from calculated indifference from the Ministry of Education in the 1950s , a preference of the LEAs for grammar schools and ultimately from the shift to comprehensives in the 1960s . |
| 7 | The examining officer comes from within the department but not from the area to be reviewed . |
| 8 | She stopped now ; then with a wicked grin on her face she added , ‘ but never from the school to the Folies-Bergère , eh , Grace ? ’ |