Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] from one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Statement B racism is entailed in a set of inherited predispositions passed on from one generation to another . |
| 2 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 3 | But eventually the servile condition of the peasants ( and the privileged status of nobles ) became hereditary , passed down from one generation to the next . |
| 4 | Another was ‘ a bit of a boss , and she moved about from one daughter to another … |
| 5 | Each ten-acre field in turn was grazed bare — 'till; you could whip a mouse across it' — and the cattle moved round from one field to another so that they were always eating fresh , springing grass . |
| 6 | It came in from one side , and Hrun was forced to take a badly-judged standing jump to escape the flame . |
| 7 | It also implies work which has been previously accomplished , an inheritance handed down from one generation to another . ’ |
| 8 | Sarah 's sister Mary was to remain the spinster of the family , but seems to have been equally comfortably-off ; when times were hard and shops were perpetually falling vacant through lack of trade in the 1820s , Mary dodged around from one location to another like an enterprising little businesswoman . |
| 9 | But the BBC-commissioned Anniversary keeps up an exhilarating flow of counterpoint , flung around from one instrument to another , rich in incident and in side issues but , for all the pace , radiating a quiet air of serenity and sureness . |
| 10 | And oh Yeah , we went round from one house to the other and you A whole week of it it was more or less . |
| 11 | A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts , acts , atoms and wounds , love , indifference and dislike ; also of his race and nation , the soil that fed him and his forebears , the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience , of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women , of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law , of all this and something else too , a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself , and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next , and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come . |
| 12 | For most of the time he shifted about from one foot to the other , more like a naughty schoolboy who has been hauled up in front of the head master than a genie rubbed out of a bottle . |