Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] from the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No man wants to come home from the war to a wife or sweetheart who shows in her face how much she has worried about him . |
| 2 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 3 | The time taken by the sound of each click to bounce back from the rock to the bird , enables the swiftlet to judge just how far away it is from the rock wall ahead . |
| 4 | Some members of the European Community are anxious to hurry on from the ERM to Economic and Monetary Union . |
| 5 | The boy had inherited his father 's mannerisms as well as his features and physique ; a certain hesitancy , and a tendency to look away from the person to whom he was speaking . |
| 6 | Ten minutes to walk across from the phone to the platform ! ’ |
| 7 | They can be very difficult to prise away from the hairs to which they are attached . |
| 8 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 9 | But the whole principle is that it should be possible for the reader always to get back from the secondary to the primary source . |
| 10 | At a conference in Munich , Germany , on Nov. 18-20 ministers from the 13 member countries of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) decided not to move on from the research to the development phase of the key Hermes spacecraft and the Columbus space laboratory projects . |
| 11 | Clear cross-references , supplemented by a thorough index , allow you to follow up a line of enquiry and to move easily from the text to the line drawings , maps and colour plates — each chosen to represent a particular design or type of rug typical of those currently available — offering instant visual access to the information you need . |
| 12 | The company is also to change its name from Merrydown Wine to Merrydown plc and is applying to move up from the USM to the main market in January . |
| 13 | Obviously pupils need to move out from the objects to the people and society to which they belonged . |
| 14 | One logical fix to this geographical mis-match is for inner-city blacks to commute out from the ghettos to the suburbs . |
| 15 | The recent reorganization of the party had been carried out because " they wanted to get a real popular element in the direction of the party , but no attempt should be made to interfere autocratically from the H.Q. to the constituencies . |