Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bathsheba trembled from head to foot . |
| 2 | In Wednesday 's race Courtney was promoted to first place following the disqualification of the winner Nigel Davies but yesterday there was no such drama as Courtney led from start to finish to win by 20 seconds from Nigel Hansen with Greg Broughton third . |
| 3 | Dryden led from start to finish opening with a 75 and then roaring him with a 71 to win by six shots from Blyth 's Gary Wilson . |
| 4 | Eleanor glanced from side to side and then said in a low voice , ‘ It 's all right … what I told you about . ’ |
| 5 | Noel Davern was appointed Education Minister , Mary O'Rourke switched from Education to Health , and Rory O'Hanlon from Health to Environment in place of Flynn . |
| 6 | When the militarily defeated Czarist regime collapsed early in 1917 , Lenin returned from exile to push for an immediate socialist revolution against the weak parliamentary regime which succeeded it . |
| 7 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 8 | Cornelius leapt from table to table , Tuppe held high . |
| 9 | DeVore looked from face to face , gauging their response , coming to Weis last of all . |
| 10 | Benny smiled from ear to ear . |
| 11 | But as time went on and the numbers grew , more organized arrangements had to be made ; and the abbot of Cluny had from time to time to undertake mighty journeys . |
| 12 | But Ben soon tired of such games and merely watched as Meg went from shop to shop , unchallenged by the android shopkeepers . |
| 13 | Cinderella mutated from rinsedella to rinse-a-leader and denser-liar , nitron became non-try , even trianon , U.V.I. kept changing into I-view-you , and synthetic fibre had long completed its various transitions from fetid cider to fist ethic neighbour and finally to thigh fetish sabre , where it looked like getting stuck for quite some time . |
| 14 | Kirsty grinned from ear to ear . |
| 15 | When they returned to the house Silas and Peter Bush walked from room to room with Lucy hovering in the background . |
| 16 | Gabriel looked from face to face in search of some explanation . |
| 17 | As Little Billy went from window to window , the Minpins followed him , clustering round and smiling at his exclamations of wonder . |
| 18 | Jennifer looked from son to father and back to son . |
| 19 | Dorothea flushed from neck to hairline and , bending her head , took a sip from her tea-cup . |
| 20 | Logan 's name is now synonymous with publishing success and under his benign and brilliant regime the NME went from strength to strength . |
| 21 | Mansell led from start to finish . |
| 22 | Only Limavady changed from unionist to nationalist hands , and Magherafelt moved from no overall majority to nationalist control . |
| 23 | For the first time ever the AAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham moved from ITV to Sky Television . |
| 24 | Italy moved from victory to victory . |
| 25 | Dean Fosbury trotted from side to side to take kicks from alternate flags , eventually finding reward when Mickey Street was able to force the ball home . |
| 26 | Even though ferment was widespread , motivations for seeking a more integrated Europe varied from country to country , and were coloured by national perspectives . |
| 27 | As Clinton went from strength to strength , Bush failed to struggle out of that image of being weak . |
| 28 | Picking her way carefully as he 'd instructed , Robbie paused from time to time to cast a puzzled look back at Fen . |
| 29 | Daphne flitted from party to party while I walked at a slightly faster pace from lecture hall to lecture hall , our two paths rarely crossing . |
| 30 | Kitty moved from hut to hut every few years . |