Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I put it off from day to day out of pity for myself . |
| 32 | Mary Poovey examines the questions at the heart of the debate : Is the woman in labour outside man 's intervention i.e. if God had cursed Eve with painful childbirth , is it up to man to lift that curse ? |
| 33 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 34 | Sheehan slugs it out on road to fame |
| 35 | You worked it out from beginning to end . |
| 36 | Scrub it out from top to bottom . |
| 37 | This method has the added advantage that , because it will be possible to subtract all the lower numbers without carrying anything at all , you can work it out from left to right . |
| 38 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 39 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 40 | There was movement there ; movement and light , as if someone was shining a torch beam on it , swinging it wildly from side to side . |
| 41 | Well it seems to me , sir , that er the new settlement is becoming a bit of a dustbin which people are throwing their unspent allocations in , and then passing it around from district to district |
| 42 | Tilda alternately nodded her head and shook it violently from side to side . |
| 43 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |
| 44 | She had recently killed some of Buddie 's hens and turkeys by gripping their necks between her teeth and shaking them violently from side to side before throwing them into the air . |
| 45 | Our adversary lets us out from time to time , to visit other houses , but we rarely enter with power and authority into the heart of the city . |