Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] from [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 2 | His eyes darted from door to lift , watchful and alert , as though he were expecting somebody . |
| 3 | Fakrid 's eyes darted from side to side , ‘ Where ? ’ |
| 4 | He seemed edgy and ill at ease and as they took the lift up to the fourth floor and stepped out into the corridor his eyes darted from side to side as if he was terrified at what he might be about to see . |
| 5 | The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority . |
| 6 | The boy 's eyes went from face to face . |
| 7 | Waves careered from side to side . |
| 8 | As the disembarked men were being lined up to march , a detail of mercenaries went from heap to heap , spiking those who still lived and removing what valuables they could discover . |
| 9 | These marked lines ran from hilltop to hilltop like ‘ a fairy chain ’ . |
| 10 | Until the mid or even the late 1950s these comparisons were made mainly in a discrete way in the belief that advantages shifted from time to time between one country and another [ Postan , 1967 ] . |
| 11 | As Madeleine listened to her brother 's quiet , sensible voice , her emotions seesawed from rebellion to anxiety . |
| 12 | Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that , contrary to statements made from time to time by Northern Ireland Ministers , the administration of justice in Northern Ireland is signally failing to do that ? |
| 13 | Returning to London , and influenced by Ruskin and Octavia Hill , she went to work as a volunteer at a number of slum-housing projects around Marylebone , where her contributions ranged from carpentry to moral tutoring and advising the poor of the district on careers , and attempting to lead them away from the evils of alcohol . |
| 14 | They were the classic forest hunters of Siberian whose family bands moved from place to place , camping in conical , deerskin-covered tents , the most common type of nomadic dwelling in the north , to which the Russians applied the Komi term chum . |
| 15 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 16 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 17 | His ideas proceeded from simplicity to simplicity . |
| 18 | The Sainsbury 's Lifestyle range of textiles went from strength to strength as the new team of specialist buyers and technologists introduced more quality items such as children 's footwear and men 's knitwear . |
| 19 | In the middle ages , celebrations lasted from Christmas to Epiphany . |
| 20 | For two days a representative cross-section of working-class men , ex-officers , and public schoolboys queued from morning to night at the Black House to join an organization which they saw as being dedicated to preserving freedom of speech . |
| 21 | Overhead , lines of biofluorescents snaked from pole to pole , tied on with string . |
| 22 | How he chose to exercise those rights differed from time to time and from province to province . |
| 23 | Red-capped cardinals flitted from branch to light branch . |
| 24 | Far more than a ‘ companion ’ to the Hornblower novels , clarifying and extending the historical background and arranging the events of the hero 's life in chronological order instead of in the irregular order imposed on readers by the dates of publication of the books , Parkinson 's book is related in intention , though not in style and tone , to the amiable pamphlets published from time to time summarising the relationships and activities of the fictional inhabitants of Coronation Street . |
| 25 | The rate of interest on loans recommended from time to time by the Building Societies ' Association ( which is at present 11 per cent ) . |
| 26 | As the years progressed and the girls grew from babyhood to childhood and on into girlhood and womanhood , Bertha Cohen could not prevent her early hopes from first wilting and then withering : what she had got were two daughters who were replicas , not of herself , but of her husband . |
| 27 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 28 | A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday . |
| 29 | In a vacuum , the children existed from day to day . |
| 30 | He was only too conscious that he had nothing really to do : his hands strayed from time to time above his freckled face to adjust his headgear . |