Example sentences of "[pron] from [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Along Hadrian 's Wall ( which from July to September can be reached by coach from Corbridge ) there are a number of interesting historical sites — the Roman Army Museum ; Vindolanda ( large Roman fort ) ; a Roman hospital and a Roman cavalry fort . |
| 2 | Imagine , for instance , a flying machine which will transport you from London to Geneva . ’ |
| 3 | Dhia , every girl 's fair throwing herself at you from Ardgour to Jura . |
| 4 | This elegant steam train will sweep you from Cherbourg to Bayeux to view the beautiful 11th century tapestry and thence to Paris with lunch on board . |
| 5 | But there was no ‘ transplantation of English institutions ’ from England to Ponthieu , just as there was none from England to Aquitaine . |
| 6 | Not a big problem , but enough of one to have tried and failed for several years at everything from Weightwatchers to F-Plan . |
| 7 | We 've spent our lives watching TV , staring at the box , until everything from Wogan to war washes over us . |
| 8 | The range is so impressive — everything from Lucretius to Tristram Shandy , from Virgil to Kinglake , from Beowulf to T. S. Eliot has been absorbed , not for the sake of being bookish but always — one feels — in an outward-looking manner . |
| 9 | Within a few months of its launch , everything from Mercedes to Metros were available for monthly payments buyers could only dream of before . |
| 10 | This hugely entertaining , funny play recalls the glorious days of the fit-up companies , touring the country with everything from Shakespeare to melodrama . |
| 11 | Yet she has sung and acted since childhood in everything from Annie to Grange Hill , from Bird 's Eye commercials to a more recent — and more controversial — Army recruitment ad . |
| 12 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 13 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 14 | Perdita listened to her mother grinding gears and going on and on and on about how marvellously Perdita had played and how it had been the proudest moment of her life , and how everyone from Rupert to Brigadier Canford said what a great future she had and Drew this and Drew that . |
| 15 | You will not do a great deal of good if you do nothing from Monday to Saturday and then run five miles on Sunday . |
| 16 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 17 | Derek was always very supportive of what I was trying to do — helping me build the aviary in his back garden had made him interested in birds too — but I could n't expect him to drop everything and drive me from Tintagel to London . |
| 18 | Copy dates prevent an account of this year 's adventure but here is a shortened version of the 1992 event which took them from Edinburgh to Monte Carlo , to a final position of 26th out of 102 starters and third in class . |
| 19 | Back home this week , Mr Ivor Simon and Mr David Brown , both member of Teesside Yesteryear Motor Club , spoke of the six-day adventure which took them from Edinburgh to the Mediterranean coast . |
| 20 | Suddenly it takes over — uncontrollably , they lash out and then flee in panic , their ancient memory switching them from Jekyll to Hyde . |
| 21 | Chris Morrison , prosecuting , said Howe and three others hired the taxi to take them from Sedgefield to Great Stainton . |
| 22 | The marathon event will take them from London to RAF Leeming . |
| 23 | But his course-work ought not to be irredeemably F. If the teacher is any good , he should be teaching his pupils all the time , so as to improve their historical understanding and their powers of accurate expression , to raise them from F to E and D and beyond . |
| 24 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 25 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |
| 26 | His work had taken him from London to the Arunta , from Boston Brahmins to Buddhist scriptures ; he too was an explorer who had left his native home . |
| 27 | Mr Christopher 's week in the region will take him from Egypt to Jordan , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Israel . |
| 28 | In Donaghy [ 1981 ] Crim LR 644 ( Crown Court ) , the accused ordered a taxi-driver to take him from Newmarket to London and made threats to his life . |
| 29 | So the film company organized a car to take him from Reading to Pangbourne . |
| 30 | P&O Containers brought her from Auckland to Tilbury , from where she took up her first challenge , the ‘ Round Europe ’ race last month . |