Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the first place , we can not say that the coins recovered from a site , whether by excavation or otherwise , represent a cross-section of coins in use on that site , even though it is generally true that coins are dropped in proportion to the amount of times they are handled or passed from hand to hand .
2 The sheet is then printed on one side with the sheet being turned or tumbled from front to rear to print the opposite side .
3 Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place .
4 In order to avoid this result the draftsman should define a reference to an Act of Parliament etc as including a reference to that Act etc as amended or re-enacted from time to time .
5 ‘ Form FLR A ’ means the form FLR A set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ;
6 ‘ Form FLR B ’ means the form FLR B set out in the schedule to these regulations , as may be amended , modified or replaced from time to time ;
7 You will be sad or distressed from time to time , as the care staff who are quoted in the section on care for the dying have said .
8 As he had done on the journey to Rhodes , from that time onwards Nicholas gave up his will , his designs , and his planning , and lived from hour to hour simply to work as he was bidden .
9 But he was learning from experience and moved from town to town to polish his burglary skills .
10 In the 15 sign languages analysed , the following signs were found for LAUGH , HELP and ( tell a ) LIE , In all 15 sign languages , the sign for LAUGH was located at the mouth or lower cheek ; the hand was either held with index finger extended , or index and thumb extended and moved from side to side .
11 motor vehicles owned by the Forestry Commission or by local authorities and used from time to time for the purpose of fighting fires ;
12 Specificity or the degree of specificity of indexing , must be established during planning for the index and reviewed from time to time thereafter .
13 The television was not very good and the voice crackled and faded from time to time .
14 The Renault shot forward and slewed from side to side in the snow as she drove fast towards the gates .
15 Once this process is complete , the compost is ready for the land , and any further storage will result in some loss , unless it is kept covered and turned from time to time .
16 Water belled from the crown of the fountain , a perfect , circular fall , and plashed from shelf to shelf , translucent in the lamplight .
17 The working was booked to stop at Colwyn Bay , Llandudno Junction and Llandudno , and worked from block to block until Muspratt 's Sidings when it took the Down Fast line and having got clear signals , proceeded to try to make up time .
18 We went in and looked from room to room .
19 A woman came out behind him and looked from left to right .
20 Joe tapped his fingertips together and looked from face to face .
21 Diplomatic missions were received and sent from time to time , and during the sixteenth century Japanese traders and pirates dominated the seas of Southeast Asia , but both channels of contact virtually ceased in the seclusion period .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 He blinked again and shivered from head to toe .
25 The drafter should bear in mind that statutes and standard form documents , such as Incoterms , are altered and updated from time to time .
26 ( Though in Van Gogh 's case , the names , Theodorus , Vincent , Vincent , Theodorus , appeared and reappeared from generation to generation , the cultural parallels to certain persisting aspects of the family face , a heavy brow , an intense blue eye , a cheek bone , a nostril . )
27 True enough , he lived in a caravan and travelled from town to town with the others in his travelling group but it was n't a garishly painted van like the ones old time gypsies occupied , just a normal common-or-garden caravan , the type people stay in on holiday , but that did n't make him a gypsy .
28 Traffic was kept on the move , but signalled from block to block with the distant signals almost permanently ‘ on ’ .
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