Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 5 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They drag on from generation to generation and emigration to Britain makes very little difference . |
| 8 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 9 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 10 | It is significant that one of the few occasions when the author of Ancrene Wisse hints at the contemplative experience occurs in his account of the behaviour appropriate at the Mass : ( After the kiss of peace in the Mass , when the priest communicates , forget the world , be completely out of the body , and with burning love embrace your Beloved who has come down from heaven to your heart 's bower , and hold Him fast until He has granted you all that you ask . ) |
| 11 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 12 | But added to that , I can well remember staying at Kettleborough Chequers erm and er walking along from Kettleborough to Brandeston erm th the very next morning after I 'd come here and I think it was before I think it was quite likely before we had we had actually met , I do n't know whether it was the first day or the second |
| 13 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 14 | I wandered in from time to time looking , usually , for something which was out of print or which no other bookseller had come around to stocking . |
| 15 | Unless one has followed the rug-making process through from clipping to completion , the only way to assess the quality of the wool is to rely on the " feel " of the item and the reputation of the individual weaving group . |
| 16 | Er it 's like kids or people walking through from Road to Road . |
| 17 | Accordingly , if the business is hived up from Target to Newco at less than both its cost and market value , this will depress the value of Newco 's shares in Target , so that a subsequent disposal of Target would , in the absence of s32 TCGA , not realise a gain . |
| 18 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 19 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 20 | To return to the example , the non-distressed parent may choose to make explicit to the friend her own thinking , such as ‘ well , the children do usually obey us and every parent gets wound up from time to time with their child ’ . |
| 21 | Commercial users of grain such as brewers of beer or vinegar or producers of starch were also picked out from time to time . |
| 22 | At Esgair Moel Woollen Mill all the processes of woollen manufacture are carried out from fleece to flannel |
| 23 | He dashes about from place to place and function to function endeavouring to record all aspects of the local scene , trivial as well as tragic . |
| 24 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 25 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 26 | From Cambridge it is , yes , er that 's actually one of its great strengths , because it is n't a thing which has been revised and added on to , it is completely new , and before we actually made it , our editor , David Crystal , er actually is probably the only person in the world to have sat and read through from cover to cover four other encyclopaedias , to find out what was wrong with them , how they could be improved . |
| 27 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 28 | He was , was he just moved on from time to time , or were they voluntary moves ? |
| 29 | But thy silk twist let down from heav'n to me |
| 30 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |