Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount .
2 The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones .
3 These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans .
4 This is defined as the rent which it might reasonably be expected to command if let from year to year , with the tenant bearing the rates and the cost of insurance and repairs .
5 The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement .
6 Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot .
7 His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak .
8 There were not enough teachers , those there were harassed almost beyond bearing and driven from pillar to post , and no one ever seemed to know who Jasper was , still less remember his name .
9 The old parish of Drumcree contained 66 townlands and stretched from Muckery to Ballyworkan .
10 I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’
11 The Largs-based professional slumped to 51st on the Order of Merit last season but , thanks to his new extra long putter , he has solved his short game problems and gone from strength to strength .
12 Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength .
13 Down , but based in Macau , set fastest time in a wet qualifying session on Saturday and led from start to finish yesterday in his Lola-Mugen to win from championship leader Kazuyoshi Hoshino .
14 The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs .
15 Now the puppet raised its hands above its head and swayed from side to side .
16 By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser .
17 He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt .
18 They are sorted , packed and dispatched from Edinburgh to mission hospitals including the Nazareth Hospital .
19 Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls .
20 He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side .
21 Full-time undergraduate , postgraduate , diploma and certificate students are required to pay , prior to enrolment , a composite annual fee as prescribed from time to time by the Council of the University .
22 These terms and conditions ( as amended from time to time ‘ the Conditions ’ ) regulate the use of an Abbeylink Card ( ‘ your Card ’ ) and form the basis of a contract between the customer ( you ) and Abbey National plc ( us ) .
23 Perhaps no political argument could persuade American judges to reject the proposition that Congress must be elected in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , as amended from time to time in accordance with its own amending provisions .
24 ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class .
25 The hallmarks of Thomas à Kempis 's approach to the religious life are a rigorous inner self-discipline and a conformity , for reasons of humility , to the existing forms of Christianity as met from day to day wherever you happen to be .
26 Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board .
27 She felt as though flung from health to illness and back by the day , by the hour .
28 All goods supplied by the Seller shall be in accordance with ( i ) the current edition of the relevant Product Description Leaflet as published from time to time by the Seller ( copies of which are available from the Seller upon request ) and ( ii ) those further specifications or descriptions ( if any ) expressly listed or set out on the face of the Order .
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