Example sentences of "[noun prp] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Are ye leaving so soon , Master English Clerk ? ’ she asked suggestively , her eyes boldly studying Corbett from head to toe . |
| 2 | He no longer drives a two-tone Rolls , no longer smokes or drinks , and he 's changed the colours of his Victorian house in Primrose Hill from black to white . |
| 3 | He 'd come to our house in Delaporte from time to time . |
| 4 | She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking . |
| 5 | The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time . |
| 6 | Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage . |
| 7 | The Secretary of State may not increase the NNDR from year to year by more than the increase in the Retail Price Index . |
| 8 | The measures already taken in preceding weeks towards economic liberalization had led to unrest and strikes , which spread in February from journalists to mill and construction workers and doctors , and to oil workers . |
| 9 | From Scotrail outlining the present position of services from Curriehill station and the introduction of new electric services on 11th May from Kirknewton to Waverley . |
| 10 | From Scotrail outlining the present position of services from Curriehill station and the introduction of new electric services on 11th May from Kirknewton to Waverley . |
| 11 | The rest are mainly either inter-urban routes like Portsmouth-Bristol , quite busy branch lines like the Cornish branches or the South Wales branches ; or they are former main lines from which InterCity has progressively withdrawn — like the Settle & Carlisle , the former Glasgow & South Western Glasgow route , Newport-Crewe , the trans-Pennine lines and some cross-country routes crossing England from east to west . |
| 12 | The Rover ambled across England from east to west . |
| 13 | If any body governed Athens from day to day , it was the council of 500 , which met on about 300 days in the year , and which had , among other duties , the task of preparing the agenda for meetings of the assembly . |
| 14 | It is also the meeting of the cultured city dweller , who led Odysseus from undergrowth to city palace , with the savage Cyclops who wished to eat the hero in a cave . |
| 15 | ‘ We hear from Denmark from time to time , ’ Eochaid said . |
| 16 | On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly . |
| 17 | But social worker Jenny Barker wishes she had held out against pressure to promote her four-year-old daughter Ruth from nursery to reception . |
| 18 | Only Rodrigo now stood between them and prevented the whole of Moslem Spain from reverting to independent Moorish rule . |
| 19 | It leaves the moves of Neil Pointon and Steve Redmond from City to Boundary Park to be completed later this week . |
| 20 | Rhythmic impetus was surprisingly low , given the presence of Tom Bancroft on drums and Josefino Cupido on percussion , but that improved notably after the interval on two extended ( if often rather directionless ) pieces which juxtaposed to good effect the four-horn front-line of John Longbotham on alto and Russell Cowieson on tenor saxophone , Robert Henderson on trumpet , and John Kenny on trombone , with Lindsay Cooper switching from bass to tuba , and Wells from keyboard to bass guitar . |
| 21 | The visitors , seeking their ninth win in ten League games , are likely to switch McGrath from centre-back to midfield to combat McMahon 's aggressive runs . |
| 22 | H.S. Ferns , A Reading from Left to Right : One Mans Political History ( 1983 ) |
| 23 | The official Bulgarian news agency BTA reported on Feb. 20 that the Shumen district court had sentenced Yusuf Mutlu from Istanbul and Belchin Perunov from Shumen to prison terms of 12 and 10 years respectively for passing state secrets to Turkey . |
| 24 | ‘ In the transmat booth that brought me and Elaine from Beaufort to Landfall , I saw the logo of the Spinward Corporation . ’ |
| 25 | In the Pentland Firth , they said , the waves had overrun the island of Stroma from end to end , piling fish and wreckage on the top , and destroying the steading and boats of Thorfinn 's steward . |
| 26 | ‘ Eight threes , ’ the Trunchbull shouted , swinging Wilfred from side to side by his ankle , ‘ eight threes is the same as three eights and three eights are twenty-four ! |
| 27 | If Alison Watt , poor little sausage , had measured the Queen Mum from ear to ear , and got everything in the right place in the same picture , people would probably tell her she was a genius . |
| 28 | And now I sha n't need you again this evening , so apart from looking in on Anna from time to time , you may do just as you please . ’ |
| 29 | He shows up in Bamford from time to time at the station . |
| 30 | I travelled the West Somerset from end to end on East Saturday and I attended the ARPS dinner on the Great Central Railway the following weekend , but these events were jollies — the value of which lay in the opportunity of meeting one 's colleagues from other preserved railways and talking with the staff and volunteers of those that we visited . |