Example sentences of "on [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these last years of the war , he was simply continuing with his life , going on from day to day without much hope for the future . |
| 2 | She had not liked him very much but she judged him to be one of those unfortunate men who dislike their neighbours even more than they dislike themselves and as such he was to be pitied , plodding on from day to day among his bingo-playing telly-watching parishioners . |
| 3 | It remains a secret , though it is said to be passed on from chairman to chairman in a discreet whisper . |
| 4 | Thereafter , the fieldworkers were passed on from person to person within the communities ; thus , the informant groups were self-recruited in that the speakers were not known to the investigators beforehand . |
| 5 | So stable were these chemical compounds that they were passed on from prey to predator by their accumulation in fatty tissue , involving a metabolic process which led to higher concentrations as the insecticide was passed along the chain . |
| 6 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
| 7 | It is passed on from generation to generation in a chain , and is very difficult to break . |
| 8 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 9 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |