Example sentences of "[verb] from [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Back Q.C. , for the appellant , contended that if Mr. Occhi consented to the appellant taking the £6 , he consented to the property in the money passing from him to the appellant and that the appellant had not , therefore , appropriated property belonging to another . |
| 2 | As a matter of practice , moneys paid into the account would be transferred from it to the account in Scotland if not immediately , then certainly within a matter of days , for amalgamation with the general fund . |
| 3 | In two modern cases , however , it has been held that so long as the donor has done all he needs to do , the beneficial interest passes from him to the donee . |
| 4 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 5 | But the polyptychs ' data , even if it 's unwise to generalise from them to the whole kingdom , may still be taken to show a relatively dense , if patchily distributed , population in the area they best cover , namely , that between the rivers Seine and Rhine . |
| 6 | Lesley walked to the microphone as the chairperson retreated from it to a spatter of applause . |
| 7 | The sides of the crater were made as secure as possible and the hole leading from it to the underground workings was fully exposed and kept clear . |
| 8 | Unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next days , you will be held as admitting liability ’ . |
| 9 | He spread it out , and glanced from it to the screen . |
| 10 | For the period , a remarkable sense of town planning is shown here with the main square , the Malostranské náměstí or Lesser Town Square in the centre and , running from it to the castle , the wide Nerudova Street , and Mostecká , leading to Charles Bridge and Letenská . |
| 11 | If I cry , the Monster cries — more piteously , longer , louder — not because it is sad , of course not , never out of sorrow or pity , no , merely because Jimbo has cried and thereby been noticed , for his self These scraps of attention the Monster would take from me to the last smile , the last nod , the last little pat on the head . |
| 12 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 13 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 14 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 15 | He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement . |
| 16 | Maxim looked from her to the marble and back . |
| 17 | In a situation where it is required to perform some task , the reaction time can be seen to include the following : ( a ) the time taken by the stimulus to activate the sense organ and for impulses to travel from it to the brain , ( b ) the central processes concerned with the identification of the signal and the response to it , and ( c ) the time required to energise the muscles and produce the correct response . |