Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin . |
| 32 | Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold ! |
| 33 | Sun Life Assurance employs 2500 employees and in 1976 the head office was relocated from London to Bristol . |
| 34 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 35 | In April 1327 Edward was moved from Renilworth to Berkeley Castle . |
| 36 | All five companies returned safely and , with the prospect of invasion looming nearer , the training centre was moved from Richborough to the West Country . |
| 37 | Even so , in 979 a body was moved from Wareham to the nunnery at Shaftesbury , and in 1001 transferred again from the churchyard to inside the abbey . |
| 38 | As an optional extra you could specify an unfeathering device which moved the blades towards the normal pitch range when the propeller lever was moved from feather to fully fine . |
| 39 | The economy of the peninsula rapidly deteriorated and the seat of government of the western part of the Roman Empire was moved from Rome to different centres for safety . |
| 40 | The fountain erected in memory of Dr John Fothergill , founding member of the Darlington Temperance Society was moved from Bondgate to South Park in 1875 . |
| 41 | On April 27 Banda announced another Cabinet dissolution ; in the new Cabinet announced on May 2 , Mwakikunga was moved from Health to Community Services , in an exchange of portfolios with Katola Phiri , and Bwanali was dropped from the Cabinet , with his portfolio of Local Government taken by Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources Stanford Demba . |
| 42 | At the same time Mavis Muyunda was moved from Health to the Ministry of Water , Lands and Natural Resources and was replaced by her deputy , Jeremiah Chijikwa . |
| 43 | Michael Howard , another standard-bearer for the Right , was moved from Employment to Environment , the largest Whitehall department . |
| 44 | In the autumn of 1982 John was transferred from Coningsby to become Commanding Officer at Wildenrath in West Germany , and so the Corsair was moved from Coningsby to Duxford , becoming one of the first privately-owned warbirds to be based there . |
| 45 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 46 | Company exhibitions manager Rob Axon said : ‘ It was built from scratch to our own design and so will prove far better than the old trailer . |
| 47 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Ayrshire we are extremely proud of the new hospital which was built from start to finish within five years , a record for anywhere in the country ? |
| 48 | as if to seal off the barbarians and leave them to their own devices , Hadrian 's Wall was built from Solway to Tyne between AD 122 and 127 . |
| 49 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 50 | Michael was saved from choking to death by David , who reached inside his mouth to move his tongue . |
| 51 | The village achieved its premier cru status in 1985 when it was upgraded from 88% to 90% . |
| 52 | When she discovered also that Persian was written from right to left , she became convinced that his eyesight would suffer irreparable damage . |
| 53 | By 1974 , however , following the collapse in the property market , land was hawked from door to door by builders , estate agents , banks , speculators and private individuals . |
| 54 | I was washed from top to toe in Mrs Joe 's usual violent manner , and handed over , in my tightest Sunday clothes , to Mr Pumblechook . |
| 55 | But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short . |
| 56 | In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase . |
| 57 | This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data . |
| 58 | ( b ) In the course of the Norbec hirings , one particularly low VLCC voyage rate was agreed from Yanbu' to Brazil at W23.5 . |
| 59 | Chorus numbers were sung in full , and the Hoflin girl 's little solo in Act Two was performed from beginning to end , but Ingrid , who was singing Lisa — not such a heavy role , but she still had a couple of solos — was resting her voice again , and the rest just walked and hummed their roles . |
| 60 | Shortly after this , in April 1858 , the Vale of Towy Railway was opened from Llandeilo to Llandovery , thus making the through route from Craven Arms to Llanelli complete when the extension opened in 1868 . |