Example sentences of "been [verb] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | We found a similar trend in a previous study in Hertfordshire , the only other study in which a group of people has been traced from birth to death . |
2 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
3 | Snakes have been mobbed from time to time by groups of ground squirrels . |
4 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
5 | The price is still £149 but the previous virus update service has been downgraded from monthly to quarterly intervals . |
6 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
7 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
8 | They know the formulae , they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years . |
9 | As the author of this publication , my opinion has been sought from time to time by dealers , other scholars and the auction rooms . |
10 | Many have been homeless , not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area . |
11 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
12 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
13 | Letters addressed to the present writer have been opened from time to time from at least 1973 to the present . |
14 | But the chain was trading as usual and Mr Chapman 's outlook remained buoyant : ‘ The business has been going from strength to strength . ’ |
15 | Although the archive has been used from time to time by researchers in pursuit of specific information , no general survey of the contents has been undertaken since the death of Lord Beveridge in 1963 . |
16 | George Bush has been swerving from side to side as Jekyll battles Hyde for command of the president 's soul . |
17 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
18 | ‘ Well , if he had been caught , Bartholomew would have been sliced from neck to crotch , his genitals ripped off and stuffed into his mouth , and his decapitated head placed on a spike above the city gates . |
19 | The tale of an unlikely Viking hero called Erik has been adapted from screen to stage . |
20 | This atmosphere will ultimately emerge as something of immense value when ‘ the kindly light of reason ’ finally sweeps away all the incredible and stifling nonsense , which has been introduced from time to time in futile attempts to counter the inexorable demand that reason and common sense shall ultimately triumph , and replace superstition and blind senseless faith . |
21 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
22 | The man 's throat had been cut from ear to ear , soaking his shirt and trousers in blood . |
23 | His throat had been cut from ear to ear and his wallet had been filched . ’ |
24 | 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 . |
25 | In an effort to boost food production , office workers were reported to have been redeployed from Havana to farm jobs , and 20,000 Havana residents were said to be working shifts outside the city . |
26 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
27 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
28 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
29 | The heads of the other men present have been swivelling from side to side , like spectators at a tennis match , during this argument . |
30 | John Dynan has been seconded from Torness to lead the project for the installation of the GOMIS system at Smolensk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia . |