Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps inevitably , the text is rather bitty , and it is therefore a book to be dipped into rather than read from cover to cover . |
| 2 | Fronted by a HyperCard-like interface — SuperCard , actually — the system lets users click and move from point to point on the painting and get lectures and comments from old bores , ex-mistresses , ‘ people who were there ’ , dopey ex-Nazi pilots , Picasso mavens and all sorts of experts . |
| 3 | The fireworks seemed to pulse with the music , her skin seemed to melt and re-form from moment to moment . |
| 4 | Trippy began to sniff and hop from foot to foot . |
| 5 | Robbins now draws more and more attention to the text itself , by indulging in a dialogue with his projected reader to celebrate reaching his hundredth chapter or by rejecting the claims of traditional literary decorum : ‘ happily , your author is not under contract to any of the muses who supply the reputable writers , and thus he has access to a considerable variety of sentences to spread and stretch from margin to margin … ’ ( 124 ) . |