Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 2 | They will want to know why we did not appreciate the inconvenience and stupidity of having to change currency constantly as one moved from country to country in the Community . |
| 3 | These men — and overwhelmingly they were men — came from large , poor families , moved from job to job in catering and manual work and were unable to save out of their meagre earnings . |
| 4 | Equally , when it came to promotion to captain in the Mediterranean fleet , interest was obviously a strong influence upon the admiral , for he remarks in July 1799 that ‘ Adam Drummond came to me yesterday . |
| 5 | The Renault shot forward and slewed from side to side in the snow as she drove fast towards the gates . |
| 6 | The warning voices raised from time to time in the journal appear to have been in the minority . |
| 7 | When you walked along it , it swung from side to side in a most terrifying fashion . |
| 8 | The rally was won outright by flying Scot Colin McRae , who led from start to finish in his Subaru Legacy . |
| 9 | Somewhere out of sight , cicadas filled the air with their high-pitched whirring and , in the distance , a woodpecker shrieked as it swooped from tree to tree in a flash of yellow , green and red . |
| 10 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 11 | Washington 's career went from strength to strength in the '40s and '50s , but her private life is the stuff of folklore . |
| 12 | He went from house to house in certain areas of the East End of London , painstakingly recording the number of residents , the number of rooms they occupied , their living conditions , their income , diet , clothing , and so on . |
| 13 | William Livingston ( 1818–1870 ) who apprenticed to a tailor and went from house to house in the course of his work , must have known the people well and written about their hard life . |
| 14 | William Livingston ( 1818–1870 ) who apprenticed to a tailor and went from house to house in the course of his work , must have known the people well and written about their hard life . |
| 15 | She looked from face to face in the darkness , faces that seemed to belong to hideous inquisitors , with the torch beams casting harsh angular shadows from below into their upturned faces . |
| 16 | Gabriel looked from face to face in search of some explanation . |
| 17 | But it seemed very small , much smaller and more fragile than the night before , as it swayed from side to side in the bright sunlight . |
| 18 | At the age of 12 he went on holiday to Butlins in Ayr with his parents and had his first taste of competitive success . |
| 19 | He soon made his peace with the new regime , meeting the queen and the young king when they went on pilgrimage to Canterbury in Lent 1327 . |
| 20 | Ahead of them , a great crack appeared from ceiling to floor in the wall where the double-doors were set . |
| 21 | For , among other reasons , Turks did not fit into a Zuwaya genealogy ; in theory , it is possible to find all forty shaikhs who appeared from time to time in Zuwaya stories in a genealogy ( although it is only anthropologists who are sufficiently naive to ask which men were the victims and where did they fit in lists of ancestors ) . |
| 22 | In a sense , history is repeating itself in that the sequence of development in the past has also contained local ‘ boom ’ elements such as kelp gathering in the 19th century or the bulb growing schemes in the 1960's , both of which foundered in response to changes in external economic imperatives , although at the outset there were high hopes that unique local resources i.e. seaweed and disease-free sandy soils , would provide enduring employment opportunities . |
| 23 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 24 | The boat had a crew of twenty , and they laboured from dawn to dusk in two shifts to keep the clumsy craft moving against the current , poling it away from sand-bars and small , reed-covered islands . |
| 25 | Their farm , West park , was in Lunedale and I travelled by train to Middleton in Teesdale . |