Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them .
2 Change them from fund to fund .
3 Change them from fund to fund , mm .
4 Harold Wilson did consult me from time to time , in the sense of asking me to ascertain from the Biafrans what their attitude would be towards a visit by him and matters of that sort , but my interventions were of a pretty futile nature and achieved no results .
5 He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side .
6 Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place .
7 He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory .
8 He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused .
9 Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top .
10 He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare .
11 nodding his head , bobbing it from side to side , achingly conscious of how stupid he must look , " Yup , looks like wine to me . "
12 ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance .
13 To learn to juggle , take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc .
14 It is a strange sensation , but many sense it from time to time : a consuming desire to part with money .
15 Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills .
16 He says why spend millions pushing them from place to place ?
17 So they 'll give them from table to table .
18 The miners in the colliery retreated before the flood of dark brown slurry which was advancing through the underground roads and filling them from floor to roof .
19 In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand .
20 Nobody knows who you are on Remembering Night because you wear black clothes that cover you from head to foot , and there is no name of your name-animal .
21 Susan had no clothes on , and the two men were showering her from head to foot — in her eyes , inside her ears , everywhere .
22 One might ask why this sudden change occurred , and whether there was a change of attitude by Gillray , perhaps even a conversion pushing him from critic to defender of monarchy .
23 The friend is to visit him from time to time to make sure he proceeds with discretion .
24 For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective .
25 A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells .
26 They shared a cigarette , passing it from mouth to mouth .
27 An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on .
28 When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy .
29 He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall .
30 One of the problems in your case is , we 've never really been able to Cos i i When we when we 've examined you from time to time , things come and gone .
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