Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Fanny died in Florence in 1866 , shortly after giving birth to their only son , the brooch was engraved with a memorial inscription and passed on by Hunt to her sister , Edith , who came out to Italy to look after the baby . |
| 2 | In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene . |
| 3 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 4 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 5 | CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions . |
| 6 | And she finally got in at quarter to and she 's , oh Kim said she was in a dreadful state . |
| 7 | Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot . |
| 8 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 9 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 10 | The main Jacobite army now moved on from Dalwhinnie to Perth , and from there to Edinburgh . |
| 11 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 12 | In this diversified structure the self-contained economies moved slowly in response to general movements . |
| 13 | Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant . |
| 14 | We watched as Christopher 's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal 's fur . |
| 15 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 16 | You see , after Father went she sold the house in Derbyshire and moved down to London to be with me . |
| 17 | Was it her own whispered , husky voice , unrecognisable , as her head moved feverishly from side to side in the growing , unbearable tension of desire ? |
| 18 | Among these , a pertinent example is Claudius Rey , a weaver , who in 1719 contributed along with Defoe to a debate relating to the importation of calico . |
| 19 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 20 | Good defending in the nick of time but still Leicester press Greyson and again Greyson headed away by Laws to Ormanroyd . |
| 21 | Gabriel moved away in silence to another seat . |
| 22 | For a summary of the terminology used above in relation to a specific example , see Table 5.1 . |
| 23 | Maiming oneself to avoid conscription in wartime , the example used above in relation to consent , would therefore be an offence contrary to s.18 , but not to s.20 . |
| 24 | They moved mysteriously from shelf to shelf . |
| 25 | As the flow of water changed rapidly from summer to winter the streams and rivers deposited their loads again , leaving thin sheets of gravel or sand in some places and fine mud in other places . |
| 26 | Yes , well , owing to the fact that we moved home from Street to Road in , which was roughly just under a mile from town , meant a change of school then . |
| 27 | Er , the other thing is of course colleagues that the doors at the side are , are open for very good reasons and I mentioned yesterday from time to time that once we get er we get talking there 's a that goes and colleagues at the side of Congress have a great deal of difficulty in hearing and listening to the debate . |
| 28 | Everything was set up and we moved off in convoy to Barry . |
| 29 | Izzie sat at his head and Gabriel at his feet , while the sun moved gradually from shoulder to shoulder of the stained-glass saints in the window of the gallery , and cast a variety of colours across the scales of Lucie 's costume . |
| 30 | ‘ This is what it is all about really ’ , said one of the clowns , handing me a bun just before he dashed across to the pub car park where they all lined up in order to be judged which of them was the best-dressed ( he was , incidentally ) . |