Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dairyman Crick 's sleeves were rolled up from Monday to Saturday , and the milkers milked in the fields for coolness . |
| 2 | By the time they reached Abergavenny , Owen was at Cardiff , and while they were pressing hard from Usk to Caerleon , Owen was withdrawing in excellent order into the wilds of Brecknock . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , they were able to continue the art classes ( to Leonard 's chagrin , a Saturday morning event ) alongside needlework and other crafts , which were exhibited locally from time to time . |
| 4 | There was confusion , however , over the position of the two central banks , Gosbank and Vneshekonombank ( Bank for foreign economic relations ) , whose responsibilities were transferred back from RSFSR to central control on Aug. 29 , and whose chairmen , respectively Viktor Gerashchenko and Yuri Moskovsky were reinstated , according to the Financial Times of Aug. 30 , partly as a result of pressure from European banks . |
| 5 | Because models were moved frequently from rock to rock throughout an immense colony , we believe no individual 's response was scored more than once . |
| 6 | The single parameter that we manipulated was whether the landmarks and feeders occupied fixed locations across trials ( group fixed ) or were moved randomly from trial to trial ( group varied ) . |
| 7 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 8 | A child , named Lewis after his father , was born to Goram and his wife 18 months ago , and added another stabilising dimension to the life of a player now consumed by the need to make the most of the gifts that were handed down from father to son . |
| 9 | It was in fact , a closed shop , and those working practices and skills were handed down from mother to daughter . |
| 10 | The Row was a highly-traditional society where the skills of the trade were passed on from generation to generation . |
| 11 | So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain . |
| 12 | Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand . |
| 13 | By exaggerating these postures the differences were obvious but as the paddle strokes were passed on from instructor to instructor the artificial distortions were slowly adopted into reality . |
| 14 | ‘ Arts ’ , or crafts , relied on practice ; and these traditional activities were passed on from father to son , or at least master to apprentice , as Faraday learned bookbinding , and as Davy had begun to learn medicine . |
| 15 | In galleries across the city , needles were passed indiscriminately from arm to arm , and along with each hit went the deadly virus . |
| 16 | In the thirteenth century , itinerant royal justices were sent out from time to time with a list of enquiries to put to local communities . |
| 17 | The Lowther mines round Workington had made their owner the ‘ richest commoner in England ’ ; and Appleby School was so good that George Washington 's brothers were sent there from Virginia to be educated , and he very nearly followed them himself . |
| 18 | They were bustling anxiously from room to room , forgetting things , making last minute plans , asking each other how they looked . |
| 19 | Our intention was to slide seamlessly from Maureen to Joyce . |
| 20 | One evening at the end of May a middle-aged man was walking home from Shaston to the village of Marlott in the Vale of Blackmoor . |
| 21 | As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil . |
| 22 | This study was carried out from March to December 1989 at the Kenyatta National Hospital , which is the only free public hospital in Nairobi , a city of 1.28 million residents . |
| 23 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 24 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 25 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 26 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 27 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 28 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 29 | Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth . |
| 30 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |