Example sentences of "his [noun sg] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would he be content to leave her in charge of Thomas and merely check on his progress from time to time , or might he endeavour to wield control in her — his — their son 's life ? |
| 2 | He found only Ulysses deeply human , with his craftiness and patience , and Oedipus , who wished to find out the unaccommodable truth about himself , and Perseus , who kept his heart from turning to stone . |
| 3 | ‘ Even the arrogant swine Luke Denner needs to put his case from time to time ! ’ |
| 4 | His closed fist shot to his mouth from time to time , followed by a few slow chews . |
| 5 | To help the patient transfer his weight from foot to foot , a side-to-side movement of the pelvis is performed , with the patient well stabilized by the plinth he is facing . |
| 6 | ‘ Jimmy was able to shift his weight from left to right . |
| 7 | The sequence of modern physiotherapy treatment normally follows a pattern : the patient has to recover his ability to balance first and foremost ; then he has to recover his ability to transfer his weight from side to side ; standing balance is the next stage , accompanied by the ability to sit down from standing up , and to stand up from sitting ; selective movements using the affected arm and leg come next ; then he learns to make steps , followed by walking ; function in the upper limb ( arm ) and controlling it in order to make selective movements against gravity happens at a late stage ; the final rehabilitation task is to regain functional , detailed movements in the affected hand and foot . |
| 8 | Gav stood by the hall table , shifting his weight from side to side and glancing nervously down at the phone now and again . |
| 9 | Your poor rustic , Even though he be no fool — how can he turn his mind From ploughs to politics ? |
| 10 | The Necromundans glanced curiously at that blind , fey figure of a man who was as alabastine as the idol of the primarch — his flesh almost translucent — yet who could speak with his mind from star to star , and could even report directly to the Emperor , should a sufficiently momentous situation arise . |
| 11 | He was assisted in his work from time to time by Samuel Holmes , a graduate of Magdalene College , Cambridge , who hoped to succeed him , but in fact on 27th July 1683 Timothy Dobson , of Jesus College , Cambridge , was appointed . |
| 12 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 13 | Shifting his grip from handhold to handhold , he reached the companionway to the cockpit . |
| 14 | His transfer from religion to art was now complete . |
| 15 | Between 1949 and 1954 much of his spare time had been given to poetic scribbling ; and he was also giving voice to a measure of vacillation and disillusionment , which we shall encounter in his poetry from time to time . |
| 16 | Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said Piper was seen driving his vehicle from side to side on the A12 at 11.30 pm on April 21 . |
| 17 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 18 | The Glasgow High-Kelvinside prop AL WATT , at 6ft. 5ins and 19 stone one of the bigger ‘ beasties ’ on the British scene , discusses his shift from lock to front row forward with BILL McLAREN . |
| 19 | As Lefevre drew his sword , the whip snaked out to catch him full in the face , ripping open his cheek from temple to jaw . |
| 20 | Two speechless simian Servitors attended him , one to ingest his waste and cleanse him , the other to nourish him with its own enriched blood and shift his cart from window to window — from which he gazed out , praying for an exploration vessel of his Chapter to pass this way . |
| 21 | Wycliffe had transferred his attention from statements to cheque stubs . |
| 22 | Conversation was not easy : " Eliot turned his head from speaker to speaker , with a slight jerk , emitting a nervous tic " yes " or " hmm " every few seconds . |
| 23 | He stood in a familiar , flamboyant posture with his hands on his hips and his chin stuck out , constantly turning his head from left to right and back again , to take in his entire audience . |
| 24 | Surely he would come down the street from this direction , she would soon see him , turning his head from left to right to make sure nobody was there to witness their assignation . |
| 25 | He pulled on his trousers and went quickly over to turn up the music , moving his head from side to side in time to the beat . |
| 26 | The German stopped moving his head from side to side and looked at me . |
| 27 | He had started moaning again and moving his head from side to side . |
| 28 | For the first time he stopped grinning , and , resting his elbows on his knees and his head on his hands , began to shake his head from side to side . |
| 29 | He swung his head from side to side , trying to get rid of that image of the girl he had known as Stella Maris holding a baby in her arms . |
| 30 | He turned his head from side to side trying to line up his patchy vision with the brown paper package — wherever that was . |