Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 5 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 10 | Then the front zip of her jeans yielded to his importuning hands and he eased away a little so that his fingers could slide inside , seeking , exploring , sensitising , until shudders shook her from head to foot . |
| 11 | She faced it from time to time , charged up her hate battery , reminded herself . |
| 12 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 13 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 14 | Sophie followed him from cage to cage and saw that everything was very hygenic and that the accommodation was roomy and warm . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Chapman 's accurate assessment of Male 's qualities was shown too when he switched him from wing-half to full-back . |
| 17 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 18 | His father 's smell seemed to be impregnated in the large cotton shirt that covered him from neck to calf . |
| 19 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |
| 20 | Rope circled them from ankle to thigh . |
| 21 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 22 | My magical ride took me from lake to lake , from Lough Corrib to Lough Mask and then to a third lake that seemed smaller than the last two inland seas set among high mountains . |
| 23 | It took them from breakfast to dinnertime to teatime to get everybody . |
| 24 | When Reinhard Pischel was a young man , his daily journey to work took him from east to west Berlin . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She took it from rider to rider . |
| 27 | Steve Claridge of Witney made it from start to finish … |
| 28 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 29 | Eva read it from cover to cover ; films , music , book reviews as well as the politics . |
| 30 | 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 . |