Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 2 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 3 | Everyone , I think , is vulnerable to the guest , or guests that descend upon you from time to time . |
| 4 | Because she is a woman , John glances at her from time to time : because she is a woman . |
| 5 | He had watched her cast aside her thin robe , and he had smiled with such infinite love and such intimacy , that pain had twisted through her from breast to womb . |
| 6 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Public meetings were organized , MPs lobbied ( including the Bridgwater incumbent , Tom King , himself a former Energy Minister ) , and a mass of information produced to emphasize both the nuclear threat and the local disruption this development would bring to everything from roads to wildlife . |
| 8 | With middle to top-quality carpets retailing at anything from £15 to over £40 per square metre , it can be a false economy not to call in professional carpet fitters for some jobs . |
| 9 | This can then be used for everything from lighting to running electrical appliances . |
| 10 | This arrangement is so flexible it can be used for anything from tennis to Holiday on Ice to huge international congresses and exhibitions . |
| 11 | In addition to the free golf , a week 's holiday ( seven nights ) , including return flight , car hire and cancellation insurance can be had for anything from £595 to £729 a person between 2 January and 31 March . |
| 12 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 13 | I could work with everything from marmosets to elephants . |
| 14 | He 's talked to me from time to time . |
| 15 | In other words a serious crime amounts to anything from murder to obstruction of the highway , the latter being committed where large numbers of people gather to march and demonstrate . |
| 16 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 17 | Instead of plumping for shop-bought toys , build up a useful box , filled with everything from buttons to old magazines , which children can glue together to make their own sculptures . |
| 18 | Cold came spreading through her from head to foot , slowly ; she felt it in her lips most , an unnatural iciness . |
| 19 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 20 | It appears to have rather generalized habits , feeding on everything from worms to clams , which it can crush with its powerful appendages , using the bases of its legs like nutcrackers . |
| 21 | Bob 's humour was based on everything from swearing to drug-taking and bodily functions . |
| 22 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 23 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 24 | To speak loosely , a causal circumstance does not include two or more links of any one causal line running through it from past to future . |
| 25 | The order consists of everything from baths to bathroom tiles . |
| 26 | Pat has dealt with everything from cancer to bereavement . |
| 27 | European public expenditure policy , of the kind proposed in successive Community documents , could potentially affect spending on anything from health to education , social services or defence . |
| 28 | By stretching brands across a wide range of products , some groups like Pierre Cardin , whose name appears on everything from fragrances to frying pans , have damaged their image . |
| 29 | He stopped and stared at her rather alarmingly , his eyes running over her from head to foot . |
| 30 | One of our longest standing clients in Edinburgh is the staff restaurant at Scotsman Publications , home of the Scotsman and Evening News , which caters for everyone from reporters to printers . |