Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] from [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When phrases of the text are repeated or thrown from voice to voice , they may or may not be set to the same or similar melodic phrase ; imitation is free and texturally loose ; metrical symmetry is at a discount . |
| 2 | The men called to each other across the floor or wandered from group to group , while their womenfolk exchanged their own news in undertones . |
| 3 | These new thelodonts show an unexpected body shape in which the body is deep and compressed from side to side and the tail is perfectly symmetrical , rather like that of early heterostracans . |
| 4 | The house was thus one structure for the family , horizontal and open in its plan ; to the servants it was quite another , vertical and confined from attic to basement . |
| 5 | Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot . |
| 6 | His partner was much shorter and wrapped from head to toe in a brown cloak . |
| 7 | There were not enough teachers , those there were harassed almost beyond bearing and driven from pillar to post , and no one ever seemed to know who Jasper was , still less remember his name . |
| 8 | The old parish of Drumcree contained 66 townlands and stretched from Muckery to Ballyworkan . |
| 9 | I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’ |
| 10 | The Largs-based professional slumped to 51st on the Order of Merit last season but , thanks to his new extra long putter , he has solved his short game problems and gone from strength to strength . |
| 11 | Since those days — when he starred as the original Ribena Kid at the age of eight — Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo has taken that motto to heart and gone from strength to strength . |
| 12 | Down , but based in Macau , set fastest time in a wet qualifying session on Saturday and led from start to finish yesterday in his Lola-Mugen to win from championship leader Kazuyoshi Hoshino . |
| 13 | The Olympic 800 metres finalist moved back up to the 1500 metres where he first made his name as a junior and led from gun to tape to win in 3 mins 39.58 secs . |
| 14 | Now the puppet raised its hands above its head and swayed from side to side . |
| 15 | By the third number , he had found his confidence and switched from electric to acoustic guitar for Give Me Love — the only sadness being that the slide guitar part was played on a synthesiser . |
| 16 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 17 | Garfield , of all the institutions in which she had ever worked , was most responsive to mood , to atmosphere ; it shifted and changed from day to day , from week to week , for it had , like the larger society of her larger imagining , its own corporate , its own embodied spirit , all the more powerful for its caging , its high barbed wire , its high walls . |
| 18 | He fingerspelt Bobo want chocolate ? and got what he thought might be an expression of interest as Bobo made a couple of deep whoo noises and rocked from side to side . |