Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 4 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 5 | No I do n't remember that , because we , we 'd be , we 'd moved from Street into Street and er I went to Road School first and er of course er my mother 's mother , that 's my grandmother , she was living with us then she used to live in Street . |
| 6 | They 'd driven from Oldfield to London with four dark bays . |
| 7 | Capital employed increased from £152000 to £591 000 , and the return on capital employed , ( ROCE ) from only 30% in 1982 to 74% by 1984 . |
| 8 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 9 | Fiona Reekie , 13 , and her mother Eileen had travelled from Fife to London to see Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 10 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 11 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 12 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |
| 13 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 14 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 15 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 16 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 17 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 18 | The second item had come from Fischer in Alexandria . |
| 19 | Other teams in the 1993 contest had come from breweries including Whitbread , Fuller 's , Young 's and Courage and the event was held at Park Royal . |
| 20 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 21 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 22 | Parents reported whether their children had suffered from attacks of asthma or bronchitis during the past 12 months , whether they usually coughed first thing in the morning or at any other time , whether their chest ever sounded wheezy or whistling , and , if so , whether this symptom was present on most days or nights . |
| 23 | The island had suffered from shortages of food , power , and medical supplies , since the Port Moresby government imposed a blockade in 1990 in response to the BRA 's declaration of independence . |
| 24 | In the month since the decision had been taken that she would come to school here , her feelings had turned from foreboding to anticipation . |
| 25 | ‘ Non-fuel ’ running costs , for example , had risen from $25 per kilowatt of capacity in 1974 to $94 in 1984 , making nuclear plants about as expensive to run as coal . |
| 26 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 27 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 28 | Bombed out of one small premises , Grandpa had moved from factory to factory , finally ending up in what was now Belmodes . |
| 29 | All the families involved had moved from England to Orkney for a variety of reasons . |
| 30 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |