Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | They are a vital tourist attraction , their foraging creates a mosaic of habitats which benefits a wide range of species , and their habitats range from forest to savanna to semi-desert . |
3 | You travel from place to place trying to avoid Mad Shopping Women and their trolleys , a Suburban Lawn-Mower Fiend , a Dentist of Destruction , and numerous other warped creations . |
4 | Thus some women , especially and significantly those who have difficult relationships with men , find themselves drawn into membership of clandestine women 's groups which meet from time to time to honour their spirits . |
5 | Birds dart from tree to tree chattering busily . |
6 | but because our fluid levels change from day to day according to what we eat or drink , they sometimes give a misleading reading . |
7 | made the evening quite memorable — i guess sunderland are not too popular up in newcastle ehh ? what about leeds — equally hated ? actually — to the newcastle fans credit — i was hearing words like ‘ that 's futballing class ’ when liverpool from time to time delivered the goods … ruddock of course got booh 's every time he was near the ball … |
8 | We in South Cambridgeshire feel from time to time sitting on the doorstep of a university city that we are often ignored and I 'm sure that that is a very fair criticism as far as our District Council is concerned . |
9 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
10 | These people go from house to house selling goods . |
11 | Then the women draw up a petition and go from house to house explaining the problem and collecting signatures . |
12 | Using this form go from room to room noting down what it would cost you to replace as new every item in it . |
13 | This problem , which we all know is to change the balance of the nations trade from deficit to surplus to export more than we import , and to take this trade balance out of the red . |
14 | But doctors and nurses do from time to time brush aside the protests of aged , dying or mentally affected patients . |
15 | Although we do not everywhere have the precision of Mesozoic chronology , we do from time to time find evidence , in all parts of the stratigraphical column , of very rapid and very spasmodic deposition in the most harmless of sediments . |
16 | In Zvornik 's empty streets , a ragbag collection of Serbian fighters edgily dash from doorway to doorway to avoid sniper fire . |
17 | Families pulling handcarts loaded with possessions move from area to area seeking refuge from the fighting . |
18 | To be specific about it , many of the Christian circles that I enter from time to time do not believe in the Devil . |
19 | That is why soldiers called Metaxas and Papadopoulos have from time to time felt obliged to step forward and try a spot of military dictatorship . |
20 | But this issue has not been the subject of legislation , nor previously been considered by this court or the House of Lords , and in such circumstances the alternatives are either to dismiss the appeal despite the relevance of article 10 and wait for Parliament to reconsider the state of the law ; or , as the courts have from time to time demonstrated their ability and willingness to do , venture into relatively unchartered waters and declare the present state of the law . |
21 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
22 | With intent to make the Love of Gardening more general , and the understanding of it more easy , I have from time to time published Catalogues , containing large Variety of Trees , Plants , Fruits , and Flowers , both Foreign and Domestic , cultivated by me for Sale . ’ |
23 | opinions and principles like [ Wilde 's ] have from time to time manifested themselves all down the course of history , generally in over-ripe civilisations wavering on the brink of decay . |
24 | A few university colleagues … have from time to time shown some loss of nerve . |
25 | General Portfolio B P Pitney Bowes over the years have from time to time provided us with funding |