Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it would change my hair from red to black ! |
| 2 | And I 'll make it my practice in future to call here unannounced . |
| 3 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 4 | I cried out with the pain which seemed to turn my body from head to toe into one raw , open wound . |
| 5 | ‘ Lonely This Christmas ’ by Mud was playing of the radio and I was swinging my body from side to side in time to the music in order to pass the time . |
| 6 | ‘ My move from accountancy to law will be both a challenge and a change of emphasis ’ said Mr Toghill , ‘ I am aware of the present employment difficulties in the profession . |
| 7 | I have learned to please , to gauge and sniff the air before I move off , to swing my head from side to side as I put one foot carefully in front of the other , ears and hair raised to twang on the slightest change in the atmosphere . |
| 8 | With a strong crosswind I sighted over my mentor 's left shoulder during the approach , only moving my head from side to side in the final stages to get a symmetrical perspective for the flare . |
| 9 | ‘ Uh , uh , ’ I wagged my head from side to side . |
| 10 | I bobbled my head from side to side . |
| 11 | But for me it 's a bit like a tennis match — I get tired of turning my head from side to side listening to you . ’ |
| 12 | Then I realized most of the visitors and all the residents were watching me and I turned my head from side to side to see why I was getting that uncomfortable my-flies-must-be-open feeling . |
| 13 | I sat down and began switching my tail from side to side to let her know that I was constantly alert and maybe a little unpredictable . |
| 14 | So she caught me up and turned me round , feeling my load from top to bottom and every side . |
| 15 | If , however , you simply have a designation which says , This is E two land this is in conformity with the structure plan which , incidentally , has n't been proved in my view in relation to development pressure nor landscape quality , nevertheless you just say this is E two land , then it seems to me that it 's very difficult to argue that it is open countryside . |
| 16 | Perhaps the most striking song here is Da lieg' ich unter den Bäumen , with its change from major to minor and a welcome unexpected modulation . |
| 17 | The reasons are the same ; the valleyside torrents are checked when they reach the main valley floor and aggradation takes place , the fan shape usually resulting from the stream shifting its course from time to time . |
| 18 | NORTHERN Ireland played its part from start to finish in the Falkands war — and for a price . |
| 19 | All amphibians shed their skin from time to time , but because the burrowing frog remains immobile once it is inside its burrow and cocoon formation has begun , the successive layers of shed skin remain attached to each other . |
| 20 | He congratulated the Association on its decision to affiliate to Congress and thereby join with half a million other workers and their families . |
| 21 | The model takes such actions for granted because its reduction of macro to micro has bracketed out the conditions under which it might be put in question . |
| 22 | The new features in Version 5.5 include a ‘ what you see is what you get ’ preview facility and extends its support for fonts to dot matrix printers . |
| 23 | Offred does n't tell her story from beginning to end . |
| 24 | On numerous other occasions I saw attempts to mobilize band-wide agreement or co-operation fail utterly when faced with the passive but intractable opposition of individuals to yielding their freedom of action to group consensus . |
| 25 | CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ . |
| 26 | If a school intends to operate a form of option system allowing pupils to drop history at Key Stage 4 or to opt for the short course or continue with the full course , pupils and parents will presumably wish to base their decision on performance to date . |
| 27 | They probably work by slowing carbohydrate digestion and absorption , but their effect on mouth to caecum transit time has not been studied . |
| 28 | She shifted her weight from foot to foot , uncertain and bewildered . |
| 29 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 30 | Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ . |