Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It represents a complete turnaround rather than a minor course correction ; a turning away from sin to salvation and service in Christ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 8 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He wagged his head slowly from side to side . |
| 11 | He moved his head slowly from side to side . |
| 12 | He shook his head slowly from side to side . |
| 13 | His father looked at him with a disappointed expression , shaking his head slowly from side to side . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Pete , the new boy , stood shaking his head slowly from side to side , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I noticed as he moved forwards , that he swung his head slightly from side to side . |
| 20 | She began to struggle , tossing her head wildly from side to side in an effort to avoid his marauding lips . |
| 21 | Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport . |
| 22 | With her face still hidden , Eleanor began shaking her head violently from side to side . |
| 23 | Sammy was already sitting waiting for them , his tail thumping the ground impatiently from side to side . |
| 24 | Roll your index finger evenly from left to right on the ink-pad , then again on the paper . |
| 25 | In 1951 , Scotland eventually ran a much more fancied Welsh side off their feet and won going away , but there was no question of exercising a clinical control virtually from kick-off to no-side as there was last Saturday . |
| 26 | DOES METABOLIC RATE VERY FROM PERSON TO PERSON ? |
| 27 | In December 1940 , Wolverton Road Vehicle Shop undertook the construction of four Mobile Kitchens , on the lines of a container which could be lifted and placed either on a road trailer or lorry , or on a railway freight wagon — exactly the same idea as the container which the LMS developed pre-war for removing furniture directly from door to door . |
| 28 | Do not use a brush straight from pot to face . |
| 29 | The six-storey warehouses were designed by Telford to stand by the water 's edge so that goods could be moved by crane straight from ship to warehouse without the double handling usual in docks of the time . |
| 30 | There seems to be a failing in getting yet another important message across from manufacturers to fishkeeper , and that is the field of filtration . |