Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They scrape me down from head to foot — my torn clothes , my hands , my broken knees , the nose on my face . |
| 2 | On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians . |
| 3 | occasionally one feels , as a teacher , rather like a soccer referee who , having blown his whistle for the kick-off , finds the players disconcertingly reluctant to make a move and is reduced to dribbling the ball himself furiously from end to end , scoring brilliant goals in undefended nets , while the motionless players look curiously on . |
| 4 | Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration . |
| 5 | The second mechanism is to have special protein molecules in the membrane , able to take hold of molecules of X and pass them directionally from outside to inside . |
| 6 | It reproduces itself identically from generation to generation ; the unconscious imitation of parents by their children is enough to ensure the perpetuation of anthropological systems . |
| 7 | A visit to our unique museum will transport you back in time to wartime Britain . |
| 8 | And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ? |
| 9 | Do you take them out from time to time and gloat ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They let me out from time to time , ’ he stated seriously . |
| 11 | Crossing over to the tree , she began to climb up , drawing herself up from branch to branch wherever she could find foothold or handhold . |
| 12 | And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery . |
| 13 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 14 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 15 | Once he 's airborne bring him down into hand to hand combat once your cavalry have made contact . |
| 16 | He raised an eyebrow and looked her over from head to toe . |
| 17 | He had deceived her utterly from start to finish , and such calculated deceit was a downright insult ! |
| 18 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 19 | Her navigation system guided her infallibly from waypoint to waypoint . |
| 20 | With full heart , Shelley drove through the silent , magic dawn , looking at him sideways from time to time . |
| 21 | It moved with her silently from room to room , breathing softly against the back of her neck . |
| 22 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 23 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 24 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |
| 25 | I do n't think it 's good for them moving them about from school to school do you ? |
| 26 | The Duke held his branch still higher , waving it slowly from side to side , and the piper started a long , echoing note on his drone . |
| 27 | It is also present in milk and eggs , and the body takes it in from exposure to sunshine as well , which is one reason why it is so important for the elderly to take outdoor exercise . |
| 28 | That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation |
| 29 | For a small charge , avoid having to carry luggage by booking it through from airport to destination . |
| 30 | The way in which community care projects get off the ground quickly is to have a small project team of three or four people with the task of steering it through from start to finish , working under the guidance of a strong chairman . |