Example sentences of "[vb base] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then head from side to side , muttering , moaning . |
| 2 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |
| 3 | To what extent will business shift from banking to other types of lending ? |
| 4 | Only then can the emphasis switch from confrontation to co-operation , the attitude shift from apathy to enthusiasm . |
| 5 | fidget with your hands , shift from foot to foot or find your voice quavering ? |
| 6 | SPANNING four continents and 70 countries , it is hardly surprising that the causes , and hence solutions to tropical forest destruction shift from region to region . |
| 7 | Among the threats to temperate forests identified by the report are logging of native forests , the treatment of trees as crops in a market shift from timber to pulp and paper production , air and water pollution , cutting for firewood , and forest fires . |
| 8 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 9 | In his speech yesterday Mr Lawson dismissed sterling 's troubles as ‘ turbulence ’ of the kind that grown-ups like him , who have seen a thing or two over the years , expect from time to time . |
| 10 | Many animals leap from bough to bough , and sometimes fall to the ground . |
| 11 | Monkeys leap from branch to branch through the trees and need to know exactly how far to jump . |
| 12 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 13 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |
| 14 | There they introduced escrima to eager young American martial artists and the last five years have seen escrima and kali grow from strength to strength . |
| 15 | ‘ We searched that place from top to bottom . |
| 16 | The individual close-ups should be shot from the same side of a line connecting the two characters so that the eyelines match from shot to shot in the way they do in the master two-shot . |
| 17 | Researchers have discovered that periods of dreaming during sleep are related to times of rapid-eye movement ( REM ) during which the eyes flick from side to side under the eyelids . |
| 18 | Scottish Borders Walk from Traquair to Yair along an ancient drove road |
| 19 | Pedestrian precincts enable the customer to shop in safety , and walk from shop to shop to compare prices ; they are particularly helpful for parents with small children ( possibly in prams or pushchairs ) and the disabled . |
| 20 | It is quite amazing how much the human eye actually misses when we walk from place to place . |
| 21 | They walk from Bentley into town for all John 's . |
| 22 | Many patients who thereby benefit from continuation of treatment as a condition of discharge from hospital are able to resume relationships and activities that would be hazardous without such treatment . |
| 23 | They are joined by an increasing number of younger people throughout our businesses who bring with them new knowledge and skills so essential to maintain a lead against global competition and benefit from changes in technology . |
| 24 | Applicants benefit from delays in determination systems and the complicated review procedures after the initial decision . |
| 25 | The demands arise from the particular tasks that lexicographers undertake from time to time , and are predictable only in overall terms . |
| 26 | Polyp feeding Butterflyfish which die from starvation in captivity |
| 27 | Should we be passive and possibly die from lack of self defence — or shoot him dead and be tried for culpable homicide ? |
| 28 | Others die from entanglement in fishing nets . |
| 29 | Among many blessings , which I count from time to time , is the good fortune of being born in this age of progress ‘ in all directions ’ and the fact that I was born with an innate curiosity . |
| 30 | Support from grandparent' to grandchild is rather more straightforward , although again rather little evidence exists . |