Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] from [noun] 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 | He 'd grinned from ear to ear , grey eyes dancing . |
| 4 | During the exchange itself he 'd moved from suspicion to disbelief to disgust and finally to acceptance of Estabrook 's proposal . |
| 5 | They 'd driven from Oldfield to London with four dark bays . |
| 6 | She 'd driven from Newcastle to virtually to with the choke on ! |
| 7 | Capital employed increased from £152000 to £591 000 , and the return on capital employed , ( ROCE ) from only 30% in 1982 to 74% by 1984 . |
| 8 | The voice had veered from exasperation to incredulity . |
| 9 | Fiona Reekie , 13 , and her mother Eileen had travelled from Fife to London to see Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat . |
| 10 | The two women had travelled from Durban to the holiday resort at Sordwana near South Africa 's border with Mozambique on Friday . |
| 11 | In a few minutes , six pages of Russian text had travelled from Riga to Moscow . |
| 12 | Ronald Taylor , who had travelled from Winsford to his daughter 's house at Middlewich Road , Rudheath , said he was affected by the smell . |
| 13 | Dana had travelled from Berlin to Salamanca on an old motor bike that was to play a large part in our lives both in Spain and in England . |
| 14 | She had travelled from Rosyth to Glasgow , hardly any distance at all , yet still she had missed her connection . |
| 15 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 16 | Where at that date , any payment was accruing due , ie where payment in arrears was stipulated , the creditor may prove for the amount which would have fallen due if the debt had accrued from day to day ( r 6.112(2) ) . |
| 17 | Between these , gold-dark , dark-gold and violent pink , lay Lady Rose Martindale , solid but not fat or for in less , indeed very woman-shaped , in pink-and-brown striped silk bathing suit , with gold hair spattered softly over the brown flesh of her shoulders and whitish sand speckled on the gleam of her thighs where she had rolled from side to side . |
| 18 | However , although the boundary existed , its position had varied from case to case . |
| 19 | At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled . |
| 20 | It had struggled from beginning to end , had depended entirely on charity throughout its four-year existence , and now the girls working there were being irresponsibly left destitute . |
| 21 | In the month since the decision had been taken that she would come to school here , her feelings had turned from foreboding to anticipation . |
| 22 | In the old world the race of Man had risen from savagery to being the dominant civilisation in two short millennia . |
| 23 | He was commenting on the latest income support statistics , which showed that average weekly benefit payments had risen from £38.52 to £51.89 between 1990 and 1992 . |
| 24 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 25 | The cost of thefts from schools had risen from £60,000 to about £70,000 over the same period , representing a drop in real terms because of inflation . |
| 26 | Bombed out of one small premises , Grandpa had moved from factory to factory , finally ending up in what was now Belmodes . |
| 27 | All the families involved had moved from England to Orkney for a variety of reasons . |
| 28 | Leadership in science , which had moved from France to Germany in the late nineteenth century and from Germany to Great Britain early in the twentieth , now went to the United States , where immense resources had been developed during the war and were ready to be applied to more beneficial ends . |
| 29 | Several knights came to Ayrshire , one being Walter Fitzallan , whose father had moved from Normandy to England with William the Conqueror and had fought at the Battle of Hastings . |
| 30 | Flaubert was emblematic of a further development in modernization , in which the referent of the work of art , having evolved from the timeless and ideal to the contingent , now had moved from contingency to virtual insignificance . |