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

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1 By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture .
2 They crawl from hair to hair and look rather like brown greenfly .
3 fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ?
4 His determination to impress Joan , to win her , made him even more tongue-tied ; his usual conversational gambit was to shift from foot to foot and laugh a great deal .
5 Workers pass it from mouth to mouth or gather one another 's excrement in order to reprocess the partially digested food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it .
6 Turn a sprung mattress from side to side or end to end every six months
7 John Dykstra , with Richard Edlund and others , was able to set up a camera rig that moved very precisely in metal tracks , with the camera on an arm that could move up and down , while the camera itself could pan from side to side or tilt up and down or any combination or roll over to the side and also change focus as needed .
8 They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills .
9 Move your knees from side to side and feel the pull in your waist .
10 I personally never start my exercise routine with the head and neck exercises in which you look from side to side and circle the head round .
11 Pre-select from right to left and press the right part button and the left tuck button .
12 Cast on and knit a few rows , then preselect from right to left and press both part buttons
13 To knit the design , preselect from right to left and press both part buttons .
14 Given the significance of regular heroin use , the psychological and physical dependency often associated with the drug , and the all-embracing nature of the lifestyle usually required to secure funds and supplies , users tend to live from moment to moment and find little time for reflecting upon their situation .
15 It 's possible to formulate theories of very simple aspects of physics where the laws or the strengths of different forces , say like gravity , actually change from place to place and make predictions as to what the observable consequences should be , erm and to a very degree of accuracy one concludes that the strengths of the forces of nature and the laws and the rules of the game are not changing from place to place .
16 Even where sediment is recorded , it is frequently in the form of sand waves that move from place to place and do not accumulate .
17 The two of them move from room to room and stand there nodding in apparent admiration of Tod 's handiwork .
18 Slow down in your mad rush from chore to chore and talk to those in the shop or office , on the platform or pavement , whom previously you would only have nodded at .
19 Do not read from beginning to end but use the books as reference texts .
20 At Long Beach , Mario notched up another victory and by Spain , the new car was beginning to show its real value : Mario was on pole position , led the race from beginning to end and put the opposition into disarray .
21 In woodlands they can swing from tree to tree or scramble over the treetops to drop to the forest floor below .
22 Roll up carefully from head to tail and secure with one or two cocktail sticks .
23 Keep yourself clean from head to foot and provide yourself with opening medicine in case of need .
24 ‘ She says she wo n't move back in here until we redecorate the whole office from top to bottom and hold a bloody seance . ’
25 And charge transfer transitions , which involve transfer of an electron from metal to ligand or ligand to metal ( Section 6.8.5 ) , are fully allowed , and bands may be very intense indeed , as for example in .
26 Amdega will build it from start to finish or supply the materials only .
27 The race was dominated by 1992 champion Bryan McMonagle who qualified on pole position , led from start to finish and set fastest lap along the way .
28 The landing was to be executed from east to west and embrace the whole southern coast of the island , from Sandown Bay , where the main body would land , to Chale , Brixton and Freshwater Bays …
29 There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ .
30 He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes .
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