Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know how he is supposed to have made it from Carluke to the bar in Motherwell if he did kill the girl at the time it was said he did . |
| 3 | One of the problems in your case is , we 've never really been able to Cos i i When we when we 've examined you from time to time , things come and gone . |
| 4 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 5 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 6 | She peered down at it , noting that a white smock , like a hospital gown , clothed her from throat to ankles . |
| 7 | The Beggar claims it is by speaking of his troubles that he has himself been cured , after a severe change of fortune which has brought him from wealth to his present condition . |
| 8 | A sob she would not let him hear racked her from head to foot . |
| 9 | Producer Duncan Weldon has asked him from time to time to do a tour but Courtenay has never responded until now . |
| 10 | His father had followed him from room to room , half a dozen strides behind him all through that late afternoon . |
| 11 | His work had taken him from London to the Arunta , from Boston Brahmins to Buddhist scriptures ; he too was an explorer who had left his native home . |
| 12 | She lingered over her task , and it was an age before she 'd covered him from head to toe : finishing her work with nimble fingers on his risen member . |
| 13 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |