Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to stand practically from morning to night outside the big department stores and theatres with heavy collecting boxes , asking for donations . |
| 2 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 3 | Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics . |
| 4 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 5 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 6 | Squalls will buffet it , but the ship of government may no longer be destined to lurch permanently from crisis to crisis . |
| 7 | Ignoring short term variation and age effects will tend to overestimate variation in male success relative to variation in female success , which is usually less strongly age-dependent in polygynous species ( see Fig. 23.2 ) and less likely to vary widely from day to day . |
| 8 | A pilot who must restrict his flying to perfect weather and clear skies will find his aircraft tied to the ground for most of the year , but if he has the ability to control his aircraft accurately whatever the weather , and is qualified to fly confidently from airport to airport under instrument flying conditions , only the very worst weather , fog , ice or severe thunderstorms will restrict his plans . |
| 9 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 10 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |
| 11 | In any case , this form of black ink is prone to discolour quickly from black to brown . |
| 12 | Moreover to change quickly from column to line and vice versa was a complicated business , though methods of doing this were evolved , notably by Guibert , the greatest military theorist of the century . |
| 13 | Perhaps , the researchers conclude , it was largely the need to get safely from tree to tree that stimulated the evolution of such a clever ape high up in the trees . |
| 14 | Although the sun had risen it was still dusk between the trees , and Allen was able to move quickly from cover to cover keeping the Waste in view . |
| 15 | THAT MEANS THAT NO MATTER where you live , you 're going to stop overnight from time to time . |
| 16 | She was able to move safely from room to room in her house , and she could get up during the night to use her commode when necessary . |
| 17 | The small dog was sniffing round Contralto 's heels , causing the horse to skip nervously from side to side . |
| 18 | The strategy of this particular proof is to head directly from hypothesis to conclusion as follows : Let a be any prime element of Z. We wish to prove that a is irreducible . |