Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
2 | Later Scandinavian sources suggest a date of 1027 for the battle of Holy River , but this is rendered implausible by chapter 13 of the Letter sent by Cnut to England in that year , which mentions people who had tried to deprive him of his kingdom and his life , but whose power had been destroyed by God , and says that he is returning from Rome to Denmark to make peace with them . |
3 | Milton Keynes mountain biker Jamie Carr has finished the Great Australian Bike Race … he 's ridden from coast to coast … one of only nine men to make it … |
4 | ‘ He 's moved from Wimbledon to Leeds , Sheffield United , Chelsea and back to the Dons for around £3million . |
5 | When I meet Morrissey , at the Hyde park Hotel , he 's dressed from head to foot in black . |
6 | of course obviously now I do n't know what he 's doing from day to day |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
13 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
14 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
17 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
20 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
21 | She looked at Phil ; he was encased from top to toe in black leather , as always . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | He was taken from home to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital but was found to be already dead . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | He could have been much more seriously hurt , but he was burned from head to foot anyway . ’ |