Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 2 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 3 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 4 | The laws of mikva have been passed down from mother to daughter in a continuous chain from biblical times . |
| 5 | This means that harem females are being passed down from father to son in a patrilineal fashion . |
| 6 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |
| 7 | As she stared entranced at her own image , Folly felt a warming in her cheeks , and watched as a flush spread down from face to neck to breasts , dying the tender peaks a deeper hue . |
| 8 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 9 | If you are going to try to convince a reader that something wildly unlikely has taken place then one useful tool at your command is to produce a story that sweeps the reader along from incident to incident in a headlong tumble . |
| 10 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 11 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 12 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 13 | Several species , ( such as C. reflexa ) carry over from season to season by regenerating new vegetative buds from usually obscure remnants of the previous season still embedded in the host . |
| 14 | Measurements suggest that the crossing over from production to destruction of O 3 occurs at an altitude of 28km . |
| 15 | The plans have been drawn up in response to concern over the nuclear industry 's long-term financial future , particularly after the end of the non-fossil fuels levy in 1998 . |
| 16 | The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War . |
| 17 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 18 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 19 | There are many other more common causes of aortic incompetence , including rheumatic fever , but cases of syphilitic aortic-valve disease still turn up from time to time in this country , albeit rarely . |
| 20 | It is never a good idea to sit for long periods but , if this is essential , get up from time to time in order to move the body . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | It is up to man to look at the world and through his perceptions and his thinking to convert the world either into a form which can then be processed or into an idea . |
| 23 | In these last years of the war , he was simply continuing with his life , going on from day to day without much hope for the future . |
| 24 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 25 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
| 29 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 30 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |