Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flight burns up energy , and the hummingbird has to stop from time to time during its journey , to defend a territory and re-fuel . |
| 2 | If we are to persist in the assertion of absolute sovereignty for whatever body happens to sit from time to time at Westminster , the answer must be affirmative . |
| 3 | An alternative to dates is to use a term like Romantic , even if its meaning seems to alter from writer to writer . |
| 4 | The scene was set for the activity of town planning to move from environmentalism to welfarism . |
| 5 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 6 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 7 | The phone continued to ring from time to time ; messengers continued to call . |
| 8 | The City of London raised a loan of £100,000 , which was gratefully accepted ; an elderly duke volunteered to emerge from retirement to lead the fleet , an offer which was declined . |
| 9 | Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs . |
| 10 | Forecasts about the course of democracy tend to swing from optimism to despair with alarming speed . |
| 11 | But council policy seems to vary from authority to authority . |
| 12 | Developed by the Transitions Research Corporation of Connecticut ( owned by Joe Engelberger ) , these refrigerator-sized robots find their way around with the aid of computerised floor maps , and can even , with the help of radio transmitters , use lifts to move from floor to floor . |
| 13 | The argument begins to move from economics to politics . |
| 14 | Love has to move from idea to reality , and that is always God 's way — the way of incarnation . |
| 15 | I was to have broken my leg attempting to get from bed to the top of the stars . |
| 16 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 17 | In the far north , where the landscape is turned white in winter by snow , mammals like rabbits and birds like ptarmigan have to change from brown to white and back again when the snows melt in spring . |
| 18 | Our desire for food tends to vary from day to day . |
| 19 | We also have to provide support for the A N C for thirty years a banned organization having to start from scratch in a country where the majority is supported but having no party officers or structures in place because if we suspend support to them or reduce it it will be like having no support of them all this time and just when the bird is about to fly you clip its wings . |
| 20 | At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food . |
| 21 | But John Redwood , the brash corporate affairs minister tipped to transfer from Trade to Treasury , bringing regulation with him , has been shunted to the new Trade Secretary 's old environment department . |
| 22 | Its position seems to vary from case to case . |
| 23 | Schnitke 's language seems to lunge from outburst to tranquil apology for his own excesses — simple , melodic threads he untangles from demonic cackle and sheer noise . |
| 24 | By mid-1991 the ALP remained deeply unpopular at federal level and in all the states except Queensland , where the party continued to benefit from reaction to the corruption of the former National Party government [ see above ] . |