Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a dominant firm will face rivals seeking to find a window of opportunity to chip away at the dominant position . |
| 2 | If these are painted black , bees orientate their dances with respect to gravity even in bright light . |
| 3 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 4 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 5 | This alkali can contribute to acid neutralisation and the intraoesophageal pH increases with time in response to acid even in the absence of salivary secretion . |
| 6 | This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy . |
| 7 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 8 | Flight fast , flocks performing aerial evolutions recalling golden plover , and undertaking long , often noisy daily journeys — up to 40 miles and back — to and from water to drink either at dawn or dusk . |
| 9 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 10 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 11 | The most vital thing is that the club is run from top to bottom just like a winning team . |
| 12 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 13 | There were girls who followed Must n't Grumble from gig to gig just to be near the boy , recording these concerts on reel-to-reel tape-recorders . |
| 14 | Down , but based in Macau , set fastest time in a wet qualifying session on Saturday and led from start to finish yesterday in his Lola-Mugen to win from championship leader Kazuyoshi Hoshino . |
| 15 | Covered pedestrian access , with lifts and inclines but no stairs ( which for the disabled and those with luggage and or small children , can cause major problems ) would enable passengers to transfer from road to rail etc in comparative comfort . |
| 16 | Every feeling of humanity reverted from it and it would scarce be believed , in that age and kingdom of philanthropy , that such cruelties were exercised from man to man even for the mean , the paltry sum of eighteen pence . |
| 17 | Much of this mobility was accounted for by adolescent farm servants who regularly changed jobs every year ; they moved from farm to farm regardless of parish boundaries but rarely went very far . |
| 18 | I loved the trees , but having this forest next door , made sure our garden only saw the sun as he moves from east to west early in the morning . |
| 19 | They were working at about the same time as Turner and Constable and shared those artists ’ concerns in relation to painting directly from nature , which Dahl described as Naturvei — nature 's Way . |
| 20 | There appears to be no policy in relation to dementia either from the point of view of the sufferer or the problems that might follow for other owner-occupiers . |
| 21 | We do that in relation to negligence generally in the civil courts , but not in the criminal courts . ’ |
| 22 | For instance : in standards of textual presentation ; in ability to thumb rapidly through a text ; in immediate portability of the viewed page ( desk to bed to balcony to garden ) ; in freedom of posture for the user ( stand , sit , lie ) ; and so on . |
| 23 | Previously , the ‘ volume ’ plans — that is , plans at constant prices — were regarded by spending managers as entitlements , carried forward from year to year regardless of what was happening to costs . |
| 24 | Previously , the ‘ volume ’ plans — that is , plans in constant prices — were regarded by spending managers as entitlements , carried forward from year to year regardless of what was happening to costs . |
| 25 | Lord John was hurrying round the edge of the room , making for a back entrance , but Sharpe simply took the direct route which meant jumping from table to table straight across the room . |
| 26 | Hammond changed his status from professional to amateur partly through taking a directorship of a tyre company in 1938 — he liked to drive fast cars — and was then selected to captain England . |
| 27 | He would become irate and irrational , shouting at Caroline and me and from time to time even at the nurses , who were patient and sweet and had done nothing to deserve it . |
| 28 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 29 | They are all newly married , with small babies who are allowed to stay up to dinner to talk amusingly about sex . |