Example sentences of "he was [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 2 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
| 3 | ‘ Get on with it , Ruthie , ’ he told her , and though he was grinning from ear to ear she knew what was powering him and she felt the excitement blossom in herself . |
| 4 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
| 5 | He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce . |
| 6 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 8 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 9 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 10 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 11 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 12 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 13 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
| 14 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 15 | She looked at Phil ; he was encased from top to toe in black leather , as always . |
| 16 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 17 | He was taken from home to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital but was found to be already dead . |
| 18 | The powerful driving fist of the surging tide was cuffing him off balance : he was rocked from side to side as it rose and fell . |
| 19 | He could have been much more seriously hurt , but he was burned from head to foot anyway . ’ |