Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His evasion of time as a restrictive element is brought out by Ralegh who insists that ‘ Time drives the flocks from field to fold ’ . |
| 2 | He turns the pages from right to left . |
| 3 | They do this even though they may break the conventions from time to time . |
| 4 | We 'll sail to the Americas and chase the Spaniards from bedtime to sparrow-fart . |
| 5 | The tummy toner , for example , raises and lowers the bottom half of the body , and the waist trimmer swings the legs from side to side . |
| 6 | ‘ She used to read The Times from cover to cover . |
| 7 | The books were housed in mahogany bookcases which covered the walls from floor to ceiling . |
| 8 | During the exposures , blurs were added by the simple but effective expedient of interposing vaseline-smeared glass between camera and model , varying the smears from frame to frame . |
| 9 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 10 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
| 11 | We also do some ‘ breeding success ’ work which involves watching the birds from nest-building to fledgling stages and recording how many chicks are produced each year . |
| 12 | As the pairs had a pattern to follow which was dictated by the components of their task — lexis , structure , discourse function — it was possible for me to stop the discussions from time to time to concentrate the attention of the whole group on specific issues like , for example , the meaningful teaching or certain lexis and grammar . |
| 13 | He dangled the keys from hand to hand . |
| 14 | 5.8.2 Immediately to repair cleanse maintain and paint the Premises as required by such notice [ 5.8.3 If within [ one month ] of the service of such a notice the Tenant shall not have commenced and be proceeding diligently with the execution of the work referred to in the notice or shall fail to complete the work within [ 2 ] months [ or if in the Landlord 's [ Surveyor 's ] [ reasonable ] opinion the Tenant is unlikely to have completed the work within such period ] to permit the Landlord to enter the Premises to execute such work as may be necessary to comply with the notice and to pay to the Landlord the cost of so doing and all expenses incurred by the Landlord ( including legal costs and Surveyor 's fees ) within [ 14 ] days of a written demand ] While it is recognised that the landlord should have the right to enter the premises from time to time to ensure that the tenant 's covenants have been complied with , this clause could cause severe disruption to the tenant 's business and should be amended accordingly . |
| 15 | As many of those were itinerant , following the seasons from farm to farm and from wold , to moor , to dale , there were few to mourn the passing of the gentle , self-effacing man ! |