Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 9 | Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name . |
| 10 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 11 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 12 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 13 | The phone continued to ring from time to time ; messengers continued to call . |
| 14 | But the mathematics master , now dribbling freely , his face contorted with hatred , continued to dance from foot to foot , watched impassively by the ninety or so young British citizens of the Wimbledon Islamic Day School ( Independent Boys ’ ) . |
| 15 | At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food . |
| 16 | For a lord 's status was directly related to the size of following he could support , and the larger his entourage the more frequently he had to move from estate to estate to feed them . |
| 17 | ‘ Initially I planned this simply because I wanted to go from coast to coast , but then I thought I might as well try and raise some money for the hospice which is on my beat . |
| 18 | The City of London raised a loan of £100,000 , which was gratefully accepted ; an elderly duke volunteered to emerge from retirement to lead the fleet , an offer which was declined . |