Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We also take in paying guests from time to time , ’ said Ernest awkwardly . |
| 2 | The former provide the managerial and administrative framework for moving products from supplier to customer . |
| 3 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |
| 4 | The simple act of getting chemicals from container to spray tank can leave operators prone to contamination . |
| 5 | While central Government will certainly wish to exercise its rights to alter spending priorities from time to time , even their own goals will not often be achieved by fiddling with elements of an extremely complicated formula , which introduces unexpected as well as intended change . |
| 6 | In Africa , it is argued that man was using fire at least 50–55 000 years ago , taking coals from camp to camp and using the fire to smoke out bees from their nests in honey-hunting , or driving game . |
| 7 | I learned how to use the single needle pantograph instrument , sending and taking messages from station to station . |
| 8 | The Treaty of Rome outlined a change in voting practices from unanimity to majority voting , with most cases to be decided by majority voting after January 1966 . |
| 9 | The Hyundai No. 205 , carrying cars from Pusan to Savannah , was coming through the Miraflores . |
| 10 | Er and the only reason that I thought they may have been favourable , would have been based on the principle of fair play , but then erm when you think of er companies who are making profits from year to year which were in excess of the previous years , then by the time three years expired , our members could have been in a loss situation , if indeed they had n't gone forward and argued the case at domestic level . |
| 11 | Meanwhile our lord and master would sit and drink one cup of tea after another , barking orders from time to time . |
| 12 | Any change in position could be attributed to external factors , and so a defence of one 's own consistency could be mounted , whilst apparently changing sides from loyalism to republicanism . |
| 13 | Research shows this can nudge up work rates ; but , like busing schoolchildren from black to white areas , it can be political dynamite . |
| 14 | His hands , transferring glasses from tray to table , did not tremble . |
| 15 | When I was a young girl I and my sisters would get a boat and slip away , visiting friends from island to island . |