Example sentences of "was from [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The sleepy period was from midnight until noon , of which the worst part was about dawn .
2 Another road design of the same period , which included Ireland 's first suspension bridge , was from Kenmare to Bantry , in the south-west .
3 One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand .
4 It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time .
5 Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement .
6 He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood .
7 In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’
8 Lessing was a man of many parts — writer , literary critic , historian , advocate of religious tolerance — who also made pioneering contributions to the study of the New Testament , and was from time to time embroiled in the continuing controversies between rationalism and orthodoxy .
9 The time we 're looking at , so we decided traditional was from civilization to World War Two and we decided that World War Two to ninety four was modern okay .
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