Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
| 2 | She slewed her eyes furtively from side to side and then said with awed relish : |
| 3 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 4 | He smiled back at them , shifting his weight smoothly from foot to foot as he reversed , turned again and was off at an ever accelerating pace round the bend of the lake and swiftly out of sight . |
| 5 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 6 | It represents a complete turnaround rather than a minor course correction ; a turning away from sin to salvation and service in Christ . |
| 7 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 8 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 9 | There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered . |
| 10 | He reached down , then gently squeezed her breasts ; thrusting the lower part of his body against her , he moved his hips gently from side to side . |
| 11 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 12 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 13 | He ‘ s had a couple of bumps , as well , one of which has left a long and jagged crease in the body almost from headlight to tail-light ; that one was n't his fault , but he drove away from it fast to avoid the questions that would certainly follow . |
| 14 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 15 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |
| 16 | He wagged his head slowly from side to side . |
| 17 | He moved his head slowly from side to side . |
| 18 | He shook his head slowly from side to side . |
| 19 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 20 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 21 | Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side , |
| 22 | Forty years later , I sat in the drawing-room of his home at Sevenoaks in Kent , watching him shake his head vigorously from side to side as he contemplated the ruins of his own efforts to resolve the Palestine problem . |
| 23 | A direct marketing channel moves goods directly from manufacturer to consumer . |
| 24 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |
| 25 | Finally she fought , trying to escape that devastating possession , twisting her head frantically from side to side until Luke 's hands came up to still her struggles . |
| 26 | I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side . |
| 27 | She began to struggle , tossing her head wildly from side to side in an effort to avoid his marauding lips . |
| 28 | Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport . |
| 29 | With her face still hidden , Eleanor began shaking her head violently from side to side . |
| 30 | Sammy was already sitting waiting for them , his tail thumping the ground impatiently from side to side . |