Example sentences of "could [verb] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But if they become part of the post-1994 set up , clever non-producers will join the company that pays the best price — and could jump from company to company on a regular basis , ’ forecast Nestle 's chief milk buyer , John Ross . |
| 2 | The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently . |
| 3 | In general Keynesians recognized that changes in W could occur from time to time , but the factors influencing these changes were extrinsic to the equations of the income-expenditure model . |
| 4 | I think y yo you could blip from month to month er , er as a priority slipped in or changed , or a person slipped out or , or somebody forgot to zero something or y |
| 5 | The different ages of her life seemed to exist simultaneously , as if she could move from age to age according to how she felt . |
| 6 | The touch of genius that he could evince from moment to moment , if he was exercising self-control , distinguished him from other politicians on both sides of the House . |
| 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 | He could go from bed to window and table , to cupboard and door and fire and wash-handbasin , but only by certain routes . |
| 9 | So it is not difficult to see how TB could spread from badger to cow . ’ |
| 10 | Whether gossip , bickering and family feuds were or were not a more prevalent feature than a wholesome communion of the population could vary from village to village and is ultimately a matter of subjective judgement . |
| 11 | The problem was that the will of the people could vary from week to week , from speaker to speaker , making consistency almost impossible . |
| 12 | He had handled many issues with skill and public spirit and good feeling , but he had no publicly recognized parcel of achievement which he could open from time to time and contemplate with satisfaction . |
| 13 | In the security of the castle , run under the English training of Lady Macleod , and as long as he could potter from room to room , with the occasional short foray out beneath the weather , Johnson relaxed , and flexed his muscles for his hosts and the other guests who called to see him . |