Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] from [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but from things he let drop from time to time I think there probably was . |
| 5 | I was quite impressed with his pace and he never stopped trying from start to finish . |
| 6 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 7 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 8 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 9 | No I do n't remember that , because we , we 'd be , we 'd moved from Street into Street and er I went to Road School first and er of course er my mother 's mother , that 's my grandmother , she was living with us then she used to live in Street . |
| 10 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 11 | One thing she 'd learned from Ace in the short time they 'd been together was to be quick on her feet . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Could you tell me how you came to move from midwifery into private nursing ? |
| 14 | They heard firing from time to time and at one point were challenged . |
| 15 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 16 | The same cat enjoyed jumping from chair to chair when his owner pointed at each in turn . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 19 | Other drivers described how the Metro overtook a caravan and then started weaving from side to side . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1974 , Emerson decided to move from Lotus to McLaren , a move dictated by the kind of restlessness and self-interest which characterize most racing drivers and , more than possibly , by the fact that 1974 was the year in which the multi-million-dollar multinational , Phillip Morris , took over the sponsorship of the McLaren team . |
| 22 | ‘ He had a role , but he kept going from character to character , using a whole lot of different accents , cockney one moment , the voice of a high court judge the next . ’ |
| 23 | He kept shifting from foot to foot , as if in pain . |
| 24 | She did n't seem to be concentrating on the performance because her eyes kept moving from side to side , although she sat very still . |
| 25 | You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy . |
| 26 | Lord John was hurrying round the edge of the room , making for a back entrance , but Sharpe simply took the direct route which meant jumping from table to table straight across the room . |
| 27 | Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time . |
| 28 | I never established anything like a friendship with him , but our paths did cross from time to time . |
| 29 | Those who did read from end to end discovered that , far from giving its blessing to ever-expanding production and consumption , it pointed out its futility . |
| 30 | Most who had previously suffered in this way reported a definite improvement and only a very few said they did suffer from constipation at first . |