Example sentences of "that [vb past] from one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another .
2 In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ?
3 Brown and McCoist were next to threaten the Belgian goal in a game that swung from one end to the other .
4 Instead of terrible , death-dealing , curling wave , you said quite simply kakala ; a high wave , formed by the meeting of two crests , was huia ; lauloa was a long wave that broke from one end of the beach to the other ; a calm , unbreaking wave was known as opu'u .
5 There were drunken brawls that rolled from one vessel to another and ended with a splash in the cloudy river , or there were glimpses of painted female faces , bodies barely concealed by thin silk shafts .
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