Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side .
2 In fact , the length of time that Standard English has had this status differs widely from place to place : over three hundred years in Jamaica , less than two hundred in Dominica .
3 The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want .
4 One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime .
5 Now that the state itself is disintegrating around us , while folk culture goes on from strength to strength , they need to be re-stated ( ibid : 95 ) .
6 The ginger tomcat glared up at her , its tail lashing furiously from side to side .
7 Heavy machinery : Machines can range widely from bandsaws to bottling plants .
8 In general , enzyme defects are inherited — passed on from parents to children in the form of an abnormal gene .
9 It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation .
10 For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation .
11 CUSTOM — A well-established , traditional mode of socially relevant behaviour passed on from generation to generation that prescribes the proper ways of behaving in given situations or under given conditions .
12 They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference .
13 It is generally assumed that pus-cells in the urethra are synonymous with infection and the pus-cell is treated vigorously from Bath to Bangkok and from Memphis to Madras as if it were an infectious organism itself .
14 However , productivity differs less from country to country for non-traded goods than for tradables .
15 The climate differs less from north to south and distances are shorter .
16 Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot .
17 The Malone Masters will span four days , two of them Pro-Am days , and has been pencilled in from Thursday to Sunday , August 12–15 .
18 Before long he was ordered to drive overland from Egypt to Iraq to help crush Rashid Ali , who had decided to join Germany .
19 Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million , while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level .
20 ‘ Ah telt ye that before , ’ he recalled , his boozed eyes gazing emptily from side to side .
21 What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit .
22 He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors .
23 The main Jacobite army now moved on from Dalwhinnie to Perth , and from there to Edinburgh .
24 Across the bumpy , threadbare putting-green , clots of people moved slowly from hole to hole , children eager and competitive , adults bored and tolerant .
25 We watched as Christopher 's expression changed slowly from shock to amazement to joy as he stroked the animal 's fur .
26 As the cylinder rotated , it was carried slowly from right to left under the mouthpiece by a screw mechanism , so consecutive lines of undulations were left in the tinfoil .
27 He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones .
28 He stood there in her crotch , weaving sinuously from side to side , hunching his shoulders , his flat little head squealing down into her face .
29 The Captain looks constantly from side to side , ready to react to anything suspicious .
30 This means checking personally from time to time the output from your area , whether it be a shoelace , a bottle of beer , a written report , half an hour 's advice or a telephone call to a client .
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