Example sentences of "[adv] from [pos pn] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of ‘ natural ’ product gains its meaning entirely from its opposition to industrialization , and is thus always indirectly produced by industrialization . |
| 2 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 3 | Every time we had to travel in from our suburb to the city for clinic visits , we made it a treat day . |
| 4 | Deng Yingchao 's authority arose not only from her marriage to Zhou in 1925 , but also from her status as one of only around 50 women to have completed the Long March of 1934-35 . |
| 5 | At the same time , his hand slid gently from her shoulder to the curve of her hip , soothing her as if she was some young and frightened animal — as perhaps she was — and paused , one finger outlining , almost idly , the concealing lacy triangle of her briefs . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ he said shortly , and walked away from her back to the barbecue . |
| 7 | My parents are dead now , and I moved away from our village to quite a big town in the hope that I would make friends . |
| 8 | When we arrived the carp were present all over from our margin to the far bank but as the time went on the fish moved out and only seemed catchable from the far side . |
| 9 | That 's the key message that came over from your answers to our November questionnaire . |
| 10 | I wonder ’ — his eyes went quickly from my face to Holmes ' — ‘ did you hear anything else at all ? ’ |
| 11 | When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " . |
| 12 | Hereford probably expected more from their visit to Torquay … but one point from a nil-nil draw was enough . |
| 13 | Chris [ Stocks ] was a little surprised to say the least when he arrived home from his holiday to be told that The sun newspaper had been trying to contact him , asking him to go to London to play a practical joke on the king of practical jokers Chris Evans . |
| 14 | The President is flying home from his visit to the Gulf … ’ and on , with statements from every leading politician but no hard information till right at the end . |
| 15 | Vitor 's kiss took the whole of her erect nipple into his mouth and she stirred , made restless by the insistent tweak of an invisible wire which seemed to go directly from her breasts to the pulsing nerve-cluster between her thighs . |
| 16 | As an alternative you can also transfer funds directly from your FlexiLoan to your Current Account whenever you want . |
| 17 | The dress fell straight from her shoulders to a hem midway down her shins in a long , vertical line . |
| 18 | ‘ Straight from my bed to hers — without any pause for reflection or refreshment ? |
| 19 | She stepped carefully from her platform to the first foothold and put her hand in his . |
| 20 | Inside , it felt so phoney that the merest glimmer of amusement would have sent an embarrassed blush swirling up from her neck to her forehead . |
| 21 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |
| 22 | With lungs clutching for oxygen , we looked up from our darkness to the glittering peaks of Kanchenjunga , Sikkim 's holy mountain , sparkling in the early sunrise . |
| 23 | Ken Stevens sipped his pint , then , setting his glass on the table , looked indignantly from his wife to his daughters . |
| 24 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 25 | Then they were touching them , and the fierce thrust of his tongue confirmed his spoken answer as his hands moved upward from her hips to the bare skin of her midriff , his fingers trailing fire across her flesh when they travelled round to her back and from there up to the smoothness of her shoulders . |
| 26 | So , erm , your point is that erm you move upward from your body to a level of intellect and then at the level there 's still a further journey to go , up to no one , and that 's our true self . |
| 27 | The pancreas was then quickly dissected out from its attachment to the stomach , the duodenum , and the spleen , rinsed with saline , blotted on paper and weighed . |
| 28 | Can you walk out from your home to a wet meadow , where snipe drum and redshanks call , or to a pond with frog spawn in spring and dragonflies in summer , or to a flowery meadow alive with buttercups , oxeye daisies and poppies ? |
| 29 | Sometimes we can judge the truth of a statement solely from its relation to other statements , as in mathematics . |
| 30 | Skilful and creative editing enables Nichols to show a time-passing sequence as Benjamin moves smoothly from his bed to Mrs Robinson 's , from stretching out on a raft in the pool to stretching out on top of her . |