Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp has at last woken up to the fact that to remain competitive in the personal computer business , it is necessary constantly to add new models , and in the US , the company yesterday added new 80486-based PS/1 models based on chips ranging from the 25MHz 80486SX to the 66MHz 80486DX2 ; they come in desktop and minitower configurations and are available now at prices expected to go from $1,200 to $3,000 ; they are upgradable to the Pentium . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | With the break between the two concentrations , soon to be filled in by Milton Keynes and Northampton 's expansion , a virtually unbroken stretch of metropolitan areas promised to stretch from Sussex to North Lancashire . |
| 4 | With her glossy curls and ripe-peach skin she seemed to glow from top to toe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Piphros ' head began to move from side to side , the entire body shaking , and oozing moisture . |
| 9 | On this day : the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy and Spain and today became 15 October 1582 ; Spain declared war on Britain , 1796 ; Italian troops occupied Tripoli , 1911 ; the first air battle took place between German and French aircraft , 1914 ; the Allies landed at Salonika , 1915 ; Sir Arthur Lee presented the estate of Chequers as an official country residence for the Prime Minister , 1917 ; the Locarno Conference met and the great powers guaranteed frontiers and agreed to put disputes to arbitration , 1925 ; unemployed shipyard workers started to march from Jarrow to London , 1936 ; the Cominform ( Communist Information Bureau ) was set up to aid European Communist parties , 1947 ; tea rationing ended in Britain , 1952 . |
| 10 | When Dante , the Italian poet , was exiled from his home in Florence , he decided to walk from Italy to Paris , to search for the real meaning of life . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We heard his remarkable speech in the seaport of Miletus , to the church leaders of Ephesus , as he started to travel from Greece to Jerusalem . |
| 14 | Therefore , I decided to travel from Balnibarbi to the island of Luggnagg , from there to Japan , and then home to England . |
| 15 | At your meeting it was mentioned that the S.M.T. service 66 appeared to run from Livingston to Balerno . |
| 16 | Up in the short-term car-park at Terminal Two , Lewis had to drive from floor to floor before he found a slot in which to put the car . |
| 17 | By mid-1991 the ALP remained deeply unpopular at federal level and in all the states except Queensland , where the party continued to benefit from reaction to the corruption of the former National Party government [ see above ] . |
| 18 | ‘ The locomotive for our London to Glasgow train was based in Leicester , ’ Mr Gisby says , ‘ so it had to come from Leicester to London before it did any work . |
| 19 | Naturally , some of us continued to meet from time to time , constituting the Tyrrell Society in all but name . |
| 20 | That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century . |
| 21 | When he had finished it , he leaned back in his chair and , resting his hands on his stomach , he watched Sammy who was making a series of strange noises in his food while his tail continued to wag from side to side . |
| 22 | They had to journey from Heathrow to Edinburgh by overnight coach and check out of their Edinburgh hotel two hours before the kick-off because they could not afford to remain there after the match . |
| 23 | The phone continued to ring from time to time ; messengers continued to call . |
| 24 | But the mathematics master , now dribbling freely , his face contorted with hatred , continued to dance from foot to foot , watched impassively by the ninety or so young British citizens of the Wimbledon Islamic Day School ( Independent Boys ’ ) . |
| 25 | At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food . |
| 26 | For a lord 's status was directly related to the size of following he could support , and the larger his entourage the more frequently he had to move from estate to estate to feed them . |
| 27 | Recently my wife and I had to travel from Holyhead to Aberystwyth when coming back from a funeral in Ireland . |
| 28 | ‘ Initially I planned this simply because I wanted to go from coast to coast , but then I thought I might as well try and raise some money for the hospice which is on my beat . |
| 29 | The City of London raised a loan of £100,000 , which was gratefully accepted ; an elderly duke volunteered to emerge from retirement to lead the fleet , an offer which was declined . |
| 30 | Better take a cheap all-day ticket , the bus conductor advised , if Nenna really wanted to get from Chelsea to Stoke Newington . |