Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | He is a born teacher , who always keeps his pupil in mind , gently leads him from point to point and is always ready to anticipate his next question or objection . |
2 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
3 | INTREPID Peter Bottomley , former scourge of the dozy British motorist , has not abandoned his life 's work just because Her Indoors shunted him from Transport to Northern Ireland . |
4 | Well I always like to read it from left to right but it does n't matter really . |
5 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
6 | His father 's response was not only to stop sending him money but also to bar him from returning to Zimbala until he renounced his Socialist beliefs . |
7 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |