Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confidence was handed on from patient to patient . ’ |
| 2 | Money was handed down from father to son ; it lost its merit as a token of worth ; the idle and nasty could be a great deal more rich than the hardworking and good . |
| 3 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 4 | A little later , at 7 p.m. , the whole scene was lit up from time to time by electrical discharges , and at one time the cloud above the mountain presented ‘ the appearance of an immense pine tree , with the stem and branches formed with volcanic lightning ’ . |
| 5 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 6 | The look on the devil-man 's face was a foolish , exaggerated astonishment , like the face he wore when Lucifer was cast down from Heaven to Hell against all his expectations . |