Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Price was working in Sheffield but was willing to help out from time to time . |
| 2 | In any case , this form of black ink is prone to discolour quickly from black to brown . |
| 3 | Ignoring short term variation and age effects will tend to overestimate variation in male success relative to variation in female success , which is usually less strongly age-dependent in polygynous species ( see Fig. 23.2 ) and less likely to vary widely from day to day . |
| 4 | ( For a more direct line , UK country fans might soon be able to fly non-stop from Stansted to Nashville , if a Tennessee congressman has his way . ) |
| 5 | Where Mr Winchester 's cross-Pacific connections become less sure is when they become tangible and man-made : the optical-fibre telephone cable that snakes beneath the Pacific from California to Hawaii and then branches out to Japan and Guam ; the AsiaSat satellite and its fellow ‘ birds ’ , sitting on the equator to bounce across Asia the telephone calls of businessmen and the television dramas of Hollywood ; the new Boeing 747–400 , able to fly non-stop from Sydney to Los Angeles ; and , odd as it seems , the Macintosh computer . |
| 6 | She did not really care whether people listened or not ; she was interested herself in what she was saying , and she was quite happy to potter about from bench to bench watching people writing their diaries when they should have been writing up their experiments . |
| 7 | Although the sun had risen it was still dusk between the trees , and Allen was able to move quickly from cover to cover keeping the Waste in view . |
| 8 | She was able to move safely from room to room in her house , and she could get up during the night to use her commode when necessary . |