Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an oral history , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 2 | For hundreds and indeed thousands of years , this knowledge has only been intuitive , passed on from generation to generation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 5 | He is armed with the Sword of Justice , an ancient weapon passed down from Champion to Champion through the reigns of successive Emperors . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The next phase of Haslam 's career was one where he moved about from company to company rather than from function to function . |
| 9 | At least there was someone to look after them as they wandered about from place to place . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If our English binge had been held in a medieval university we should have had , mixed with the bawdy songs , tragical and even devotional pieces , equally authorless and handed on from mouth to mouth in the same way , with the same individual variations . ’ |
| 12 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 13 | There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation . |
| 14 | It is not surprising that the skills of Chinese herbal medicine handed down from generation to generation are viewed with scepticism by many outsiders . |
| 15 | The cab hurtled along from pool to pool of the bleak , unnerving light , struggling over the large brown lumps that bulged like bubbles in the roadway . |
| 16 | P Cygni , in the Swan , flared up from obscurity to magnitude 3 in 1600 , and then declined ; for well over a century now it has hovered around the fifth magnitude , easy to estimate with binoculars . |
| 17 | In 1600 it flared up from obscurity to the third magnitude ; ever since 1715 it has fluctuated around 5 , and may be compared with 28 Cygni ( 4.8 ) and 29 Cygni ( 5.0 ) . |
| 18 | He had had to conceal his revulsion at the creased and thumbed photographs handed round from desk to desk at school — those grey girls with their balloon breasts and gaping hairy forks . |
| 19 | During the journey , the Chaplain had already inducted the Necromundan boys into proper worship , with a strong emphasis on adoration of Rogal Dorn , whose own gene-seeds — bred on from generation to generation of Imperial Fists within their implanted progenoid glands — would kindle the neophyte cadets into Marines , true Marines of the chapter . |
| 20 | So they need fresh enemies ordered up from time to time just to keep their chins jutting . |
| 21 | Rapid embarkation and unloading is achieved via metal steps shuffled around from door to door . |
| 22 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 23 | Apart from the measly sums she doled out from time to time , the allowance was Benedict 's by right , for it was left in trust for him by her husband . |
| 24 | Elsewhere Southport Central , Sheffield Wicker , Leicester West Bridge , and Bradford Adolphus Street went over from passenger to goods traffic , when supplanted by more extensive terminals . |
| 25 | Paris alerted Croydon , where both planes were due to land and in due course a pilot went up from Croyden to guide him down . |
| 26 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 27 | They went around from house to house demanding the licensing fee . |
| 28 | He and Zak went away together , and Donna drifted around from table to table for a while telling everyone that poor Angelica had really been very sweet , not a murderess , and she , Donna , was dreadfully upset at the suggestion . |
| 29 | Fearful storms sometimes come along our way and we we wonder what is happening to us and we feel that we 're being thrown around and tossed about from side to side , there seems no way out ! |
| 30 | This sally produced a blustering but largely inarticulate monologue from which the words ‘ MP ’ , ‘ head of Scotland Yard ’ , ‘ no respect ’ , ‘ outrageous ’ , ‘ appalling ’ , ‘ risked my life in the service of my king ’ and ‘ do n't know what the world 's coming to ’ , cropped up from time to time . |