Example sentences of "it [vb past] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Obelkevich in a detailed study of rural Lincolnshire has shown that the " religious realm " of the rural poor reached beyond Christianity to " encompass an abundance of pagan magic and superstition " which was integrated with a Christian doctrine itself not left unchanged as it passed from church to cottage . |
| 2 | Somewhere out of sight , cicadas filled the air with their high-pitched whirring and , in the distance , a woodpecker shrieked as it swooped from tree to tree in a flash of yellow , green and red . |
| 3 | What I was prepared to believe now , although it changed from day to day , was something frightening and surprising and new . |
| 4 | As it changed from green to amber the current intensified sharply and before he could stop himself Graham instinctively jerked his hand off the pad . |
| 5 | Meg stood behind him , at his shoulder , holding the two lamps steady above the page , following Ben 's finger as it moved from right to left , up and down the columns of cyphers . |
| 6 | When you walked along it , it swung from side to side in a most terrifying fashion . |
| 7 | The Latin used in medieval documents likely to be of interest to readers of this present volume was not the classical language of antiquity , nor were its standards universally high , and it varied from century to century as time advanced . |
| 8 | We never had a routine day , it varied from day to day . |
| 9 | Historians agree that the size of this group was certainly much reduced in number by the middle of the eighteenth century , but the chronology of this decline is debatable for it varied from region to region . |
| 10 | Oh it varied from time to time . |
| 11 | Chipped rock flew , and the noise of it ricocheted from wall to wall of the ditch and then faded . |
| 12 | But it seemed very small , much smaller and more fragile than the night before , as it swayed from side to side in the bright sunlight . |
| 13 | Morgan found a two-guinea coin , and it went from hand to hand . |
| 14 | It ran from Ballybunion to Listowel . |
| 15 | When she laughed and giggled it stretched from ear to ear , but half an hour after leaving her you found yourself remembering Harvey 's claim that she was the most beautiful girl in the world . |
| 16 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 17 | So heavy it would crush you as it pushed from side to side . |