Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Erm the first point I 'd like to make erm on this issue erm is that Mr erm seems to have assessed this criterion solely with reference to landscape quality . |
| 5 | As a woman who had chosen not to marry , Leapor looked for constancy primarily in relation to friendship . |
| 6 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 7 | Measurements suggest that the crossing over from production to destruction of O 3 occurs at an altitude of 28km . |
| 8 | Bill Thompson and I , as the reporters who had seen the case through from start to finish , were invited officially to be present at the hanging in Regina Jail . |
| 9 | Whilst there is always someone I can go to with a problem , on most occasions I see a case through from start to finish ’ . |
| 10 | It represents a complete turnaround rather than a minor course correction ; a turning away from sin to salvation and service in Christ . |
| 11 | ‘ You had a great head on you the way you thought the plan through from beginning to end . |
| 12 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 13 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 14 | But Marx , in an equally tough voice , merely said , ‘ O.K. Let's do just that , ’ put his hand in his breast pocket , slowly pulled out a horribly official-looking envelope , and slowly and carefully took from that an even more horribly official-looking form , folded once , in what to Herr Nordern seemed an indescribably sinister manner from top to bottom instead of side to side . |
| 15 | ‘ You could knock this wall down , and make one large room through from front to back . ’ |
| 16 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 17 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 18 | Since expansion takes place laterally on exposure to moisture , there must be a resulting contraction longitudinally , which manifests itself by rotation of the coil to unwind , with of course , expansion on drying . |
| 19 | He ‘ s had a couple of bumps , as well , one of which has left a long and jagged crease in the body almost from headlight to tail-light ; that one was n't his fault , but he drove away from it fast to avoid the questions that would certainly follow . |
| 20 | Officers were yesterday interviewing the woman , and Inspector Barry Jakeman appealed to anyone who was at Farley Mount in the hour up to midnight to contact police . |
| 21 | The last stage is to elaborate the case carefully for presentation to specialist audiences whether they be parents , students , employers , governors or other interested groups . |
| 22 | He wagged his head slowly from side to side . |
| 23 | He moved his head slowly from side to side . |
| 24 | He shook his head slowly from side to side . |
| 25 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side , |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |