Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Cambridge it is , yes , er that 's actually one of its great strengths , because it is n't a thing which has been revised and added on to , it is completely new , and before we actually made it , our editor , David Crystal , er actually is probably the only person in the world to have sat and read through from cover to cover four other encyclopaedias , to find out what was wrong with them , how they could be improved . |
| 2 | They should also be appropriate to the nature and circumstances of the business in question and applied consistently from year to year . |
| 3 | The event has been brought forward a year from 1991 and moved also from France to West Germany . |
| 4 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 5 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 6 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 7 | Daak spent a few minutes kicking the remains of the pilot out of the front of the cockpit , and then settled himself into the pilot 's bucket seat and swivelled lazily from side to side , waiting for the women . |
| 8 | The external obliques are situated either side of the rectus abdominis , and run diagonally from top to bottom . |
| 9 | The first is that an advertisement is , at least in some sense , an artistic creation : people 's judgements of art are virtually always subjective , and vary widely from person to person . |
| 10 | The booksellers ' and auctioneers ' vocabulary concerning condition is a very extensive one and varies greatly from cataloguer to cataloguer . |
| 11 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 12 | More important , the ‘ Meltemi ’ , a consistent and strong high season wind from the north west , provides great excitement for sailor and windsurfer alike from June to mid September . |
| 13 | The following morning we flew to Tacna in the far south of Peru , crossed into Chile by taxi and flew on from Arica to Santiago . |
| 14 | Leave the front carriages set to knit and knit slowly from right to left . |
| 15 | Fearful storms sometimes come along our way and we we wonder what is happening to us and we feel that we 're being thrown around and tossed about from side to side , there seems no way out ! |
| 16 | Named dances would come and go and vary greatly from club to club . |
| 17 | For the next four years or so he lived the nomadic life of the minstrel , heading off in his car round the well worn folk circuits of Germany , Italy and Brittany and playing everywhere from cafes to pizza parlours . |
| 18 | The protein and vitamin-packed formula works by forming a protective barrier around your hair and is so easy to use : simply shampoo and rinse your hair with warm water , apply Intensive Conditioning Treatment evenly and massage through from roots to tips . |
| 19 | He wore spectacles and behind the thick lenses his eyes were cloudy and shifted continually from side to side so you were never sure where he was looking . |
| 20 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | Once Lothar had again spurned his brothers ' messengers , and come southwards from Aachen to the Moselle , apparently seeking battle , the scene was set for a final showdown . |
| 22 | An actor can wear his cap as an academic in private conversation as well as the next person , but once on stage the actor responds to the requirements of a scene being played , and works through from moment to moment . |
| 23 | Row 2 : Turn the work round and work again from right to left . |