Example sentences of "[pers pn] from [noun] to [noun sg] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 2 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 3 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 4 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 5 | Also his head still pains him from time to time where he got that knock . |
| 6 | His father 's response was not only to stop sending him money but also to bar him from returning to Zimbala until he renounced his Socialist beliefs . |
| 7 | His glance raked her from head to foot before he even moved further and she could see that he thought her very decadent to be in her housecoat at this time in the morning . |
| 8 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 9 | Mr Peter the consultant orthopaedic surgeon who tended her first immediately after the accident at Hinchinbrook and thereafter in the year from April nineteen eighteen eight as well as seeing her from time to time since , had this to say about her parent 's efforts quote I think that without their constant support and stimulation and their determination that Anna Jane would function again as a rational human being . |
| 10 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 11 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 12 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 13 | When the meat had shrivelled and curled they waved the sticks in the cold air for a minute , unskewered it , blew off the coating of ash and tossed it from hand to hand until it was cool enough to eat . |
| 14 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |