Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 2 | Complaints on the left side or go from left to right |
| 3 | Complaints are characteristically on the left side or go from left to right . |
| 4 | One day last week we 'ad to get us own lunch , me young See-all-hear-all-say-nowt upstairs , and then I had to bellow to get him down t'elp or I 'd 'ave been stuck 'ere in this chair wi'out a sup or bite from dawn to dusk and beyond . |
| 5 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
| 6 | Instead you can knit every needle on the main bed , hand select pattern needles on the ribber and transfer from ribber to main bed using the rib transfer carriage . |
| 7 | Put both feet almost together and jump from side to side . |
| 8 | The ingredients which make up the special stew are a closely kept secret and vary from chef to chef . |
| 9 | If they 're gon na be driving from village to village , they might as well work from a police station and drive from village to village in a transit van or a police vehicle . |
| 10 | I am functional on the methadone ; I can stand to get out of bed before three in the afternoon , I write poetry and draw from time to time , and even manage to socialise a little , dining at an occasional restaurant , catching the odd play . |
| 11 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Then the women draw up a petition and go from house to house explaining the problem and collecting signatures . |
| 13 | The current round of investment is a strong vote of confidence from the main ICI Group that the Plastics Business will continue to build on recent success and go from strength to strength . ’ |
| 14 | Now let us take a step in time and move from summer to autumn , the time when the lush weed is still present and the water still runs clear at not much more than summer level . |
| 15 | We go in and move from room to room . |
| 16 | Many of the swamps around the flood plains of African rivers turn to hard sun-baked mud during the dry season , yet one fish , the lungfish , manages to live in them and survive from season to season by breathing air . |
| 17 | Its strange , lowered vista , for instance ( which now reminds the adult more than anything else of George Herriman 's Krazy Kat , where buildings disappear and reappear from frame to frame " ) is an obvious representation of London in the late forties and fifties : all the houses had gaps in between , because of the bombs , and the sky came closer to the ground than seemed right . |
| 18 | Contrast the same scene on the neck of a contemporary Attic jar ( fig. 9 ) , where the figures are conventionally coloured black or white and reach from bottom to top of the picture . |
| 19 | Ralph Linton states that ‘ The culture of a society is the way of life of its members ; the collection of ideas and habits which they learn , share and transmit from generation to generation ’ . |
| 20 | Quick wit and cleverness at school had shifted him quickly from his roots in the Belfast underclass , and his natural proclivities had led him to the theatre set , a wee bit of acting and extra-work from time to time , usually as a gunman or a thug and once , memorably , as a rather well-fed hungerstriker . |
| 21 | Existing guarantees offer extra rights but vary from maker to maker . |
| 22 | We ca n't help but go from strength to strength . |
| 23 | Good sense says that they should go as far as they can but return from time to time to those parts of the plan which have not at first been realized . |