Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before long he was ordered to drive overland from Egypt to Iraq to help crush Rashid Ali , who had decided to join Germany . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 3 | They had to stand practically from morning to night outside the big department stores and theatres with heavy collecting boxes , asking for donations . |
| 4 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 5 | Well , but we , no we 're not saying that , what we 're saying is that we so all we 're trying , w w w that they were saying we ca n't go from cap er from feudalism to socialism but we do n't want to go just from feudalism to capitalism , we want to go into er if you like a capitalism with socialist characteristics . |
| 6 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 7 | They ought to have been eliminated by now , or is there a mutation that continues to crop up from time to time ? |
| 8 | Our intention was to slide seamlessly from Maureen to Joyce . |
| 9 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 10 | How I do need to look away from self to God , I can only find satisfaction : in him . |
| 11 | Price was working in Sheffield but was willing to help out from time to time . |
| 12 | Holograms are 3 dimensional images of scenes and events , enabling the viewer to look around from side to side , up and down to see different areas of the subject . |
| 13 | Lessons should be easy to follow ; that is , the teacher should find it easy to keep his place when he has to look frequently from coursebook to students . |
| 14 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 15 | erm we did n't have a holiday for that but we used , when it was Willenhall er our mums knew that we should be like going home and we used to go straight from work to the Wakes you see , which was a , it was really a good wake then but then you 'd got to walk home . |
| 16 | The lower rate of SMP is to go up from £46.30 to £47.95 a week , and the weekly earnings threshold is increased from £54 to £56 . |
| 17 | Those appointed to the senior status of High Court judge will have acted as Recorders and will often have sat as Deputy High Court judges , having been invited to do so from time to time . |
| 18 | Squalls will buffet it , but the ship of government may no longer be destined to lurch permanently from crisis to crisis . |
| 19 | Ignoring short term variation and age effects will tend to overestimate variation in male success relative to variation in female success , which is usually less strongly age-dependent in polygynous species ( see Fig. 23.2 ) and less likely to vary widely from day to day . |
| 20 | The opportunity to fly down from Liverpool to a sales meeting at Maidenhead via White Waltham had seemed too good to pass up . |
| 21 | ( For a more direct line , UK country fans might soon be able to fly non-stop from Stansted to Nashville , if a Tennessee congressman has his way . ) |
| 22 | All jets burn less fuel the higher they go , and in order to fly non-stop from Geneva to Moscow he sacrificed air speed for fuel economy . |
| 23 | Where Mr Winchester 's cross-Pacific connections become less sure is when they become tangible and man-made : the optical-fibre telephone cable that snakes beneath the Pacific from California to Hawaii and then branches out to Japan and Guam ; the AsiaSat satellite and its fellow ‘ birds ’ , sitting on the equator to bounce across Asia the telephone calls of businessmen and the television dramas of Hollywood ; the new Boeing 747–400 , able to fly non-stop from Sydney to Los Angeles ; and , odd as it seems , the Macintosh computer . |
| 24 | A pilot who must restrict his flying to perfect weather and clear skies will find his aircraft tied to the ground for most of the year , but if he has the ability to control his aircraft accurately whatever the weather , and is qualified to fly confidently from airport to airport under instrument flying conditions , only the very worst weather , fog , ice or severe thunderstorms will restrict his plans . |
| 25 | In order to cajole him into accepting the role , the British tandem of Peter Yates and John Mortimer were asked to fly out from London to Philadelphia , where the play was trying out . |
| 26 | She did not really care whether people listened or not ; she was interested herself in what she was saying , and she was quite happy to potter about from bench to bench watching people writing their diaries when they should have been writing up their experiments . |
| 27 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 28 | It took an hour or more to jog along from Canonbury to Paddington , but we did reach the enchanted spot at last . |
| 29 | ‘ I studied marketing in Singapore so as to branch out from accounting to marketing . |
| 30 | While such solidarity may cause the nation to bind together from time to time as in 1940 , at present it-is of a divisive nature rather than unifying . |