Example sentences of "from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two points off a relegation place and with no money to spend , they 're on Skid Row and Kendall has gone from prince to pauper . |
| 2 | Chapman switched Jimmy Brain from inside-forward to centre-forward to create a powerful new source of goals , for Brain went on to score 31 that season , breaking the club 's individual record . |
| 3 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's other concern was to dislodge the Germans from their dominating positions on the ridge of high ground running from Westroosbeke to Broodseinde before winter set in . |
| 4 | A butler , a Polynesian in a trim white jacket , approached us with a tray of drinks ranging from champagne to gin fizzes or Scotch and sodas . |
| 5 | check what excesses apply to the various sections of the policy — these will differ from insurer to insurer . |
| 6 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 7 | As ever , rank-and-file Party members and local trades union officials provided the core of the listening web which was supposed to embrace all citizens of Romania from cradle to grave . |
| 8 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 9 | They should also inform shoppers as to the product 's environmental friendliness from cradle to grave — evaluated according to standardized criteria . |
| 10 | Attracted , presumably , by the bright whites and reds , it flits deftly from shirt to shirt , with no intention of going anywhere . |
| 11 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 12 | I was carried away on the wave of enthusiasm which , one could almost feel this physically , bore the speaker along from sentence to sentence . |
| 13 | FROM ENTITLEMENT TO OBLIGATION |
| 14 | In particular , the shifts from entitlement to discretion , exemplified by the Social Fund , and the exclusion of certain groups from the benefits system , notably 16- and 17-year olds . |
| 15 | The paragraphs being added to the database became part of a new book on hypertext entitled Hypertext : from Text to Expertext . |
| 16 | The same themes were reechoed in the second decade of the sixteenth century , when the government again began to take an interest in restraining enclosure , and attempted , sometimes successfully , to restore land from pasture to tillage . |
| 17 | Migrating from pasture to pasture with their herds of horses , cattle and other animals , they lived in a type of portable home ( ger ) consisting of a circular framework covered with felt ( which the Russians incorrectly called yuna ) . |
| 18 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |
| 19 | She spread her legs a little wider , as his mouth feasted upon her from arsehole to clitoris , slobbering over her saturated crotch . |
| 20 | Ivan was the real threat , and if only Adolf had the sense he 'd do a deal with Churchill , they 'd kick Neville into touch , and the pair of them would whip the Reds from here to Kingdom Come , or from arsehole to breakfast-time , whichever was the shorter route . |
| 21 | ‘ This is what they get from arsehole to breakfast . |
| 22 | She had been stopped and killed while cycling home from Byss to Hilderbridge late on the previous night . |
| 23 | The shift from description to prescription in this formulation is interesting . |
| 24 | The final section of the book , " Form and function " , contains a variety of approaches to the problem of the switch from description to interpretation in the analysis of texts . |
| 25 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 26 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |
| 27 | They just ran , Delaney leading , dropping from deck to deck until they reached the engine room ladder . |
| 28 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 29 | In Africa , it is argued that man was using fire at least 50–55 000 years ago , taking coals from camp to camp and using the fire to smoke out bees from their nests in honey-hunting , or driving game . |
| 30 | Despite the impression given by some authors ( e.g. Brimson , 1987 ) , a company does not necessarily develop its production methods along a continuum from JIT to CIM systems . |