Example sentences of "[noun sg] from [noun] to [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drugged you drag grief from room to room and weep , |
| 2 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 3 | The workers operate in pairs , following a car from station to station and carrying out the entire work assignment belonging to their team . |
| 4 | For suppose that the disuse of meat causes a permanent distaste for it , and that an increased demand for fish continues long enough to enable the forces by which its supply is governed to work out their action fully ( of course oscillation from day to day and from year to year would continue : but we may leave them on the side ) . |
| 5 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 6 | The subscription rates shall be subject to review from time to time and altered on the recommendation of the Finance Committee with the agreement of the Executive Committee . |
| 7 | It works for education authorities and it could work here , but the needs do vary a great deal from locality to locality and are not really suitable for discussion for decision in Whitehall , or to be more accurate Queen Anne 's Gate . |
| 8 | According to principle 3 , on market practice , a firm should ‘ comply with any code or standard as in force from time to time and as it applies to the firm either according to its terms or by rulings made under it . ’ |
| 9 | It is a very short leap from euphoria to despair and back again . |
| 10 | Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 allows grant payments to be made to suitable applicants , provided that there will be a significant environmental benefit , the anticipated expenditure is of a capital not revenue nature , British Rail will carry the desired freight , the rail freight facilities will encourage a transfer from road to rail and that , relatively speaking , the wanted rail freight facilities would not be viable without a Section 8 payment . |
| 11 | P&O merchant seamen were in the thick of the battle from start to finish and the war histories of P&O , British India , Orient Line , New Zealand Shipping , Hain Nourse , Strick , Federal Steam and Moss Hutchison tell of countless dramas and acts of courage . |
| 12 | We have begun to ask the Lord and ask the church to send out workers into this particular harvest field with the aim of finding out what needs there are in the area , offering practical help from house to house and seeing who would like to consider following Jesus . |
| 13 | It 's that at the age of 34 , fourteen years after first shambling on stage in downtown Chicago , having criss-crossed the stand-up circuit from coast to coast and guested on very hip chat show from David Letterman to Arsenio Hall , he should be bigger than he is . |
| 14 | All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes . |
| 15 | All plans need revision from time to time and difficulties arise in reading the networks after several such changes . |
| 16 | In order to continue to monitor the developments in the English vocabulary from day to day and from year to year , it is essential for the Dictionary Department to continue to collect such quotations . |
| 17 | The station was the place where the railway greeted its local customers and took their money , the doorway through which important people right up to royalty would pass on visits to the district , the storeplace for every kind of commodity , precious and bulky in transit from town to country and vice versa . |
| 18 | It is accepted that ageing is a continuous process from birth to death and there are considerable differences between the average worker in the 25–45 age group and the apparent equivalent in the 46–65 age group . |
| 19 | The primary purpose of this research is to develop a methodology capable of analysing these complex interrelated issues , focusing in particular on the economic pressures created by the handing on of the business from father to son and from the purchase of land . |
| 20 | In the first place , diplomatic and political history were regarded as the centre of the discipline — the transaction of government business from month to month and year to year so that , according to the progenitors of the new approach , one could be forgiven for thinking that the only Frenchmen who had lived were cabinet ministers . |
| 21 | Other factors can alter the Earth 's climate from millennium to millennium and decade to decade , including slight changes in its orbit around the Sun , and the effects of greenhouse are superimposed on these other factors . |
| 22 | They need the minimum of tonal variation in order to find this sound from venue to venue and would give a wide birth to any amplifier that offered any more than they think they need , no doubt fearing the onset of option anxiety . |
| 23 | Paper chains , turquoise , acid yellow and flaming scarlet , were draped about the room from corner to corner and back and forth . |
| 24 | I 've gone home at nights with clothes drenched with sweat from head to foot and the wife has had to pull my socks off , they 've been that wet inside my boots . |
| 25 | The video is in the form of a drama serial which follows a new enterprise from discovery to development and associated business practices , with attention to international cultural differences . |
| 26 | Distance from withers to elbow and elbow to ground is equal . |
| 27 | The paper is moved both backwards and forwards in very precise steps while a pen carrier holding four miniature ballpoint pens moves across the surface from left to right and vice versa . |
| 28 | I cherished that dolly , kept on altering the face with new stitching from time to time and I still have it in a drawer somewhere . |
| 29 | A bus service from Seacombe to Woodside and the introduction of an all-in ferry-bus ticket . |
| 30 | She was n't quite sure who deepened the kiss , or who moved until they were in contact from head to toe and she felt the pulsing of his hard , warm body . |