Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand . |
| 2 | The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side . |
| 3 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 4 | In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time . |
| 5 | ‘ Form FLR A ’ means the form FLR A set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 6 | ‘ Form FLR B ’ means the form FLR B set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ; |
| 7 | You will be sad or distressed from time to time , as the care staff who are quoted in the section on care for the dying have said . |
| 8 | Her long hair was pulled through its centre to spring from her crown like a pony-tail that swished from side to side as she moved . |
| 9 | To be specific , do Jewish and Arabic readers have comic strips that read from right to left , as their script does ? |
| 10 | By running a marginal operation that staggered from week to week , he was unable to put together a long-term plan for success . |
| 11 | Well no , if you remember they they 've just started now a review of nineteen ninety three 's reorganisation because everything that moved from Newark to West Bridgford has moved back again |
| 12 | This was a cost-effective method , but failed to deal with non-clustered accidents scattered throughout residential streets , with locations that changed from year to year . |
| 13 | It was just one of those odd coincidences that happened from time to time . |
| 14 | So far we have looked at the consensual influence of television : at influences that varied from time to time but affected all or most citizens at any one time . |
| 15 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 16 | Under the loose sleeve was a red wound that went from elbow to wrist . |
| 17 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 18 | There were plenty of conflicting stories about the way he got the scar that ran from temple to chin down the right side of his face . |
| 19 | From here he controlled a web of spies and informers that ran from Madurai to Attock , from the beaches of Malabar to the mangrove swamps of Bengal . |
| 20 | When he dashed into the bathroom Wattling 's face was covered with blood , pouring from a gash that stretched from eye to chin . |
| 21 | By twelve , I had learned how to bargain with the suppliers at Covent Garden while displaying a poker face , later selling the same produce to the customers back in Whitechapel with a grin that stretched from ear to ear . |
| 22 | As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden . |
| 23 | But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills . |
| 24 | In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side . |
| 25 | motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ; |
| 26 | Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter . |
| 27 | The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time . |
| 28 | The Renault shot forward and slewed from side to side in the snow as she drove fast towards the gates . |
| 29 | Once this process is complete , the compost is ready for the land , and any further storage will result in some loss , unless it is kept covered and turned from time to time . |
| 30 | Water belled from the crown of the fountain , a perfect , circular fall , and plashed from shelf to shelf , translucent in the lamplight . |