Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 2 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 3 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 4 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 6 | With the break between the two concentrations , soon to be filled in by Milton Keynes and Northampton 's expansion , a virtually unbroken stretch of metropolitan areas promised to stretch from Sussex to North Lancashire . |
| 7 | I was quite impressed with his pace and he never stopped trying from start to finish . |
| 8 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 9 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 10 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 11 | They 'd driven from Oldfield to London with four dark bays . |
| 12 | In the next house , Miss Goulding seemed to toil from morning to night at top speed to ensure that the laundry she worked on was ready for delivery by Fred Cotton . |
| 13 | Events in Russia again encouraged switching from marks to dollars , Swiss francs and pounds , and sterling closed three-eighths of a pfennig higher at Dm2.3887 , but a fifth of a cent lower at $1.4345 . |
| 14 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 15 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 16 | The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 19 | Other drivers described how the Metro overtook a caravan and then started weaving from side to side . |
| 20 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 21 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 22 | Capital employed increased from £152000 to £591 000 , and the return on capital employed , ( ROCE ) from only 30% in 1982 to 74% by 1984 . |
| 23 | After four years as a VAT control officer at Customs and Excise , Parkin decided to turn from gamekeeper to poacher and joined Arthur Andersen in 1986 . |
| 24 | In 1974 , Emerson decided to move from Lotus to McLaren , a move dictated by the kind of restlessness and self-interest which characterize most racing drivers and , more than possibly , by the fact that 1974 was the year in which the multi-million-dollar multinational , Phillip Morris , took over the sponsorship of the McLaren team . |
| 25 | We heard his remarkable speech in the seaport of Miletus , to the church leaders of Ephesus , as he started to travel from Greece to Jerusalem . |
| 26 | ‘ He had a role , but he kept going from character to character , using a whole lot of different accents , cockney one moment , the voice of a high court judge the next . ’ |
| 27 | He kept shifting from foot to foot , as if in pain . |
| 28 | Earlies er when I worked at the Ford Motor Company it meant getting from Ilford to Dagenham and starting on a machine at six A M in the morning , in the middle of winter or the middle of summer . |
| 29 | She did n't seem to be concentrating on the performance because her eyes kept moving from side to side , although she sat very still . |
| 30 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |