Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
| 2 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 3 | She slewed her eyes furtively from side to side and then said with awed relish : |
| 4 | The station closed to passengers as from December 31 , 1962 although freight services continued for some months more from Hereford to Eardisley . |
| 5 | The coast past from Swanage to St Adhelm 's Head |
| 6 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 7 | He smiled back at them , shifting his weight smoothly from foot to foot as he reversed , turned again and was off at an ever accelerating pace round the bend of the lake and swiftly out of sight . |
| 8 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 9 | The cases of Septrin followed the route backwards from Britain to Malaysia and back to Town 's Harrogate base . |
| 10 | Yet once that dominant interest existed , the option of directing available money away from consumers to producers was no longer real if the system were to grow sufficiently in good times , survive in bad . |
| 11 | Attempts to lure Howell away from Bowdoin to larger and better-known institutions all foundered on his love for the college and for the state which had adopted him . |
| 12 | So Weberian theory has slowly shifted its concerns away from bureaucrats to a related interest in the tendency for state officials to be operating in a corporatist manner : mediating between warring groups in the ‘ national interest ’ . |
| 13 | She learned to love the school which tried to be a home away from home to the 120 girls . |
| 14 | It represents a complete turnaround rather than a minor course correction ; a turning away from sin to salvation and service in Christ . |
| 15 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 16 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 17 | Thus canons often have tonic and dominant relationships , and in order to preserve a single tonality the 4th leap downwards from tonic to dominant often has to be followed by a leap of a 5th ( dominant down to tonic ) . |
| 18 | There is no reason , however , why the restriction should apply only to the elements that A holds in common with C and not those that it holds in common with B. That is , the overshadowing mechanism , if it operates , should reduce generalization both from A to C and from A to B. It can not , therefore , be responsible for the result obtained . |
| 19 | There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered . |
| 20 | ‘ We brought publication forward from September to June because the situation was so uncertain . ’ |
| 21 | With CityLink X70 , there are frequent departures daily from Oxford to Heathrow — every half hour for much of the day . |
| 22 | He reached down , then gently squeezed her breasts ; thrusting the lower part of his body against her , he moved his hips gently from side to side . |
| 23 | However , there has been some decentralization of office employment since the mid-1960s , with a redistribution away from London to the outer-metropolitan areas . |
| 24 | There was no dramatic increase in the total volume of shipping using British ports over the first half of the eighteenth century , but there was a relative shift away from London to provincial ports . |
| 25 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 26 | Peat-based products that are not from SSSIs will continue to be stocked , but according to a spokeswoman the move is a part of an overall shift away from peat to substitutes . |
| 27 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 28 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 29 | He ‘ s had a couple of bumps , as well , one of which has left a long and jagged crease in the body almost from headlight to tail-light ; that one was n't his fault , but he drove away from it fast to avoid the questions that would certainly follow . |
| 30 | Being undersold out there in Jamaica was to be only one of William Charles 's problems as time went by : after a period of increasing success as a linen draper and mercer , he was eventually beset by financial problems , occasioning a move northwards from Bishopsgate to Finsbury Place , Finsbury Square ( on the corner of Chiswell Street ) , together with a reproof from William Jowett , who lost no time in admonishing his cousin in a letter to Richard Titford from Jamaica , dated 28 April 1806 : |