Example sentences of "it [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke held his branch still higher , waving it slowly from side to side , and the piper started a long , echoing note on his drone . |
| 2 | It is also present in milk and eggs , and the body takes it in from exposure to sunshine as well , which is one reason why it is so important for the elderly to take outdoor exercise . |
| 3 | That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation |
| 4 | For a small charge , avoid having to carry luggage by booking it through from airport to destination . |
| 5 | The way in which community care projects get off the ground quickly is to have a small project team of three or four people with the task of steering it through from start to finish , working under the guidance of a strong chairman . |
| 6 | I put it off from day to day out of pity for myself . |
| 7 | Mary Poovey examines the questions at the heart of the debate : Is the woman in labour outside man 's intervention i.e. if God had cursed Eve with painful childbirth , is it up to man to lift that curse ? |
| 8 | So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end . |
| 9 | Sheehan slugs it out on road to fame |
| 10 | You worked it out from beginning to end . |
| 11 | Scrub it out from top to bottom . |
| 12 | This method has the added advantage that , because it will be possible to subtract all the lower numbers without carrying anything at all , you can work it out from left to right . |
| 13 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 14 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 15 | There was movement there ; movement and light , as if someone was shining a torch beam on it , swinging it wildly from side to side . |
| 16 | Well it seems to me , sir , that er the new settlement is becoming a bit of a dustbin which people are throwing their unspent allocations in , and then passing it around from district to district |
| 17 | Tilda alternately nodded her head and shook it violently from side to side . |
| 18 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |