Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The symptoms she endured varied from month to month , worsening or improving according to the circumstances of her life at the time . |
| 2 | Benefits realised varied from site to site , but ranged from a doubling of throughput per week at a cost more than halved , through to a headcount reduction of one third . |
| 3 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 4 | When 5,000 miners tried to march in protest to the capital last August , troops halted them , the government declared a state of siege and workers ' leaders were arrested under emergency powers . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 6 | I was quite impressed with his pace and he never stopped trying from start to finish . |
| 7 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 8 | It was a bit cheaper living here in an older neighbourhood than in the heart of the city , so she had n't had to tap into what she 'd earned as companion to Anna Sabatini . |
| 9 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 10 | ‘ My dear girl , you 'd have thought him very ill-bred if he 'd talked about money to you , and even if he had , you would n't have understood the relevance of what he was saying , any more than he understands how well off we are . |
| 11 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 12 | Marler , still holding the executive case he 'd refused to hand to José , noted the curtains were drawn the full length of the large room . |
| 13 | In the next house , Miss Goulding seemed to toil from morning to night at top speed to ensure that the laundry she worked on was ready for delivery by Fred Cotton . |
| 14 | Wellington 's face seemed to shudder in reaction to the stench of powder , blood , sweat and crushed grass that wafted from Sharpe 's uniform . |
| 15 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 16 | Their eyes migrated from the sides of their heads ( where their cousins still keep them ) , to look forward with acute stereoscopic vision , and their brains began to mushroom in proportion to their body-weight . |
| 17 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 18 | The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn . |
| 19 | But John Redwood , the brash corporate affairs minister tipped to transfer from Trade to Treasury , bringing regulation with him , has been shunted to the new Trade Secretary 's old environment department . |
| 20 | The England striker 's 20 goals have brightened his club 's otherwise moderate campaign which at one stage threatened to end in relegation to the Second Division . |
| 21 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 22 | He was appointed controller of the printing business of Oxford University Press in 1883 : the position later became known as printer to the university . |
| 23 | In later years many of the canals became linked by rail to goods yards where transhipment of materials from rail to canal and vice versa could take place . |
| 24 | After spending part of the summer at Baden with Constanze , Mozart decided to go on speculation to Frankfurt am Main , where Leopold II was to be crowned Holy Roman Emperor on 9 October . |
| 25 | In 1975 she started to work as secretary to Tom Horton , in finance . |
| 26 | Other drivers described how the Metro overtook a caravan and then started weaving from side to side . |
| 27 | For a short time she stood still and silent , scarcely breathing as she revelled in the novelty of his tenderness , but presently her body started stirring in response to the warmth of his mouth , a new sweetness to her desire . |
| 28 | And then er , they brought it back and then they started doing to quarter to six , but it still was n't good enough cos you ca n't , you ca n't have all these people in suits and briefcases stood outside a pub for quarter of an hour waiting for it open , you know |
| 29 | After four years as a VAT control officer at Customs and Excise , Parkin decided to turn from gamekeeper to poacher and joined Arthur Andersen in 1986 . |
| 30 | I smiled in answer to this , and started talking in French to a small , balding man who turned out to be Swiss and who was on the run from the customs in Geneva . |