Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] from [noun] [prep] [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 | This brought them from 4.5Mb per image to less than 1Mb — much easier to put on floppies . |
| 21 | Rope circled them from ankle to thigh . |
| 22 | Everyone who has ever taken an exam will remember that feeling of complete and utter boredom that overwhelmed them from time to time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took them from breakfast to dinnertime to teatime to get everybody . |
| 25 | When Reinhard Pischel was a young man , his daily journey to work took him from east to west Berlin . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She took it from rider to rider . |
| 28 | Steve Claridge of Witney made it from start to finish … |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Eva read it from cover to cover ; films , music , book reviews as well as the politics . |