Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ultimate finishing touch has to be the ‘ champagne ’ shower unit that sprinkles you from top to toe with specially aerated bubbly water . |
| 2 | He can usher you from chaos to comfort in mere moments . |
| 3 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |
| 4 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 5 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 6 | It took them from breakfast to dinnertime to teatime to get everybody . |
| 7 | Commentators considered that the delay was designed to give the LTTE time to negotiate with the Moslem and Sinhalese communities in the Eastern Province in order to prevent them from joining to vote for the reinstatement of a separate Eastern Provincial Council . |
| 8 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 9 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |
| 10 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 11 | She lived with the child and her father stayed with them from time to time in the flat on the north side of Glasgow . |
| 12 | One might ask why this sudden change occurred , and whether there was a change of attitude by Gillray , perhaps even a conversion pushing him from critic to defender of monarchy . |
| 13 | While Oliver was eating , the strange boy looked at him from time to time with great attention . |
| 14 | And although the Robemaker lashed out at him from time to time with the thin , cruel rope-lights , he managed not to flinch . |
| 15 | He raked her from head to foot with one long , contemptuous look , then turned on his heel , and strode away under the arch and out of sight . |
| 16 | Finally , the Report suggested that the Minister might establish ‘ a small committee to advise her from time to time on the subjects and types of adult education courses which should receive priority in qualifying for grant ’ ( Recommendation 18 ) . |
| 17 | A man had his arm around her , rocking her from side to side as the singers swayed with their patriotic song . |
| 18 | Secondly , the SIB has been given the power to designate rules and regulations issued by it in relation to conduct of business , financial resources , client money or unsolicited calls , so that they apply to all authorized persons . |
| 19 | Conservative plans would split it from top to bottom in a complex network of charging that pitted patients against doctors , doctors against hospitals , hospitals against charities and charities against patients . |
| 20 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 21 | If you use it from floor to ceiling in a recess — say the recesses either side of a chimney breast — it will look as if you can walk into a whole extra room next door . |
| 22 | Yes they just had one maybe one melodeon or one fiddle , but played for the whole dance and you could hear it from end to end of the hall . |
| 23 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 24 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 25 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh God , it 's going to be a terrible place ! ’ cries Howard to his fellow-guests around the Chases ' dinner table , holding his head and rocking it from side to side in humorous despair . |
| 27 | To learn to juggle , take one ball and practise tossing it from hand to hand in an easy arc . |
| 28 | Wade through them , swinging it from left to right in a figure of eight and yelling like mad , forcing them back as you break out towards safety like a samurai in the Tokyo rush hour . |
| 29 | ‘ We can never dismiss yesterday as though it never happened , because we carry it with us from moment to moment until the end of our days . ’ |