Example sentences of "from [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 2 | The final section of the book , " Form and function " , contains a variety of approaches to the problem of the switch from description to interpretation in the analysis of texts . |
| 3 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 4 | Closely allied to foxgloves they carry their spikes of tubular flowers for many weeks as the individual blooms open in succession from base to tip of the spikes . |
| 5 | Under the 1944 and 1948 Education Acts such schools would have been illegal : pupils must be transferred from primary to secondary between the ages of ten and a half and twelve . |
| 6 | In this room , the tree has pride of place , decorated with purple , red and gold baubles with strings of pearl beads and silver cord garlands draped from branch to branch for a touch of elegance . |
| 7 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 8 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 9 | The eroded material is usually moved away by the action of longshore drift ( see below ) , which , in England , moves material mainly from north to south on the east coast and from west to east on the south coast . |
| 10 | It was always in motion , in waves and pulses , moving from west to east in the atmosphere . |
| 11 | He then went on to reject a submission that the third condition was only effective to except a Hong Kong profits taxpayer from liability to tax on the profits of an independent business carried on by him overseas . |
| 12 | In a simple conditioning procedure the value of V will grow from trial to trial as a result of CS-US pairings and in consequence the value of a will fall . |
| 13 | A ‘ chambermaid ’ who looks about eighty goes from tent to tent with a wheelbarrow full of logs and lays all the fires in the dustbin-like metal stoves . |
| 14 | Lij Yasu 's father was the ruler of Wollo , Ras Mikael , who had been converted from Islam to Christianity during the reign of the Emperor John , and had later married Menelik 's elder daughter , Shoaragad . |
| 15 | Some range from hilltop to hilltop in the manner of Watkins 's ‘ fairy chain ’ image . |
| 16 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 17 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 18 | That was Mandy , from pathos to pleasure in the blink of an eye . |
| 19 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 20 | Lalage jumped out of the car and waited , hopping from foot to foot like a child longing to pee , while Dada and Aunt Tossie slowly disembarked . |
| 21 | With this help , No. 1 Troop had fought their way from building to building up the landward side of the road and were attacking a house when Sergeant Culling was hit in the face and killed by a percussion grenade exploding on impact . |
| 22 | My speciality shifted from building to wading through the Bunyala swamps with wellies and a rucksack on my back . |
| 23 | There it was again , moving from grave to grave in the moonlight . |
| 24 | When the militarily defeated Czarist regime collapsed early in 1917 , Lenin returned from exile to push for an immediate socialist revolution against the weak parliamentary regime which succeeded it . |
| 25 | When tempted by didacticism , the writer should imagine a spruce sea-captain eyeing the storm ahead , bustling from instrument to instrument in a catherine wheel of gold braid , expelling crisp orders down the speaking tube . |
| 26 | Seb 's expression changed from disbelief to delight in a matter of seconds . |
| 27 | Panamanian public opinion has shifted from disbelief to bitterness at the failure of the US to back the abortive coup . |
| 28 | As he has shifted from opposition to support for the Vance-Owen plan , so has Serbian television . |
| 29 | As so defined , this ground for interception was wide enough to cover just about anything , from murder to breach of the peace . |
| 30 | In other words a serious crime amounts to anything from murder to obstruction of the highway , the latter being committed where large numbers of people gather to march and demonstrate . |