Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To cut my expenses down from £30,000 to £750 ( by carrying my own bag and staying in youth hostels . ) |
| 3 | She slewed her eyes furtively from side to side and then said with awed relish : |
| 4 | So Weberian theory has slowly shifted its concerns away from bureaucrats to a related interest in the tendency for state officials to be operating in a corporatist manner : mediating between warring groups in the ‘ national interest ’ . |
| 5 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With her face still hidden , Eleanor began shaking her head violently from side to side . |
| 9 | She began to struggle , tossing her head wildly from side to side in an effort to avoid his marauding lips . |
| 10 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 11 | Burns-Anderson , which can boast Sir John Harvey- Jones as its chairman until he retires next June , nudged its profit up from £4.2million to £4.6million in the year to September 30 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He wagged his head slowly from side to side . |
| 16 | He moved his head slowly from side to side . |
| 17 | He shook his head slowly from side to side . |
| 18 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 19 | Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side , |
| 20 | I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As in his previous adventure , the weed helped save him ; he made his way laboriously from tuft to tuft of the blackened reeds that thrust their way through the mud and ice . |
| 23 | at the expense of the company they said you know , he , he says that er he says Martin had said to him , you know , you should take your sister out from time to time , there 's no reason why , you know , we we could n't |
| 24 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |