Example sentences of "had [be] [vb pp] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man 's throat had been cut from ear to ear , soaking his shirt and trousers in blood . |
| 2 | His throat had been cut from ear to ear and his wallet had been filched . ’ |
| 3 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 4 | Lij Yasu 's father was the ruler of Wollo , Ras Mikael , who had been converted from Islam to Christianity during the reign of the Emperor John , and had later married Menelik 's elder daughter , Shoaragad . |
| 5 | By the time HMS Beagle reached her final port , Charles Darwin had been elevated from obscurity to the status of reputed naturalist . |
| 6 | Within two years she had been transferred from teaching to teacher training . |
| 7 | According to Dowie ( 1977 ) , this auto-company sold the Pinto model for a period of six years even though they knew from their own test researchers that the product , which had been rushed from design to production in the short period of twenty-five months instead of the planned forty-three , was dangerous . |
| 8 | The spirit had been caught from time to time long before and by the same crossing of Italian sweetness with Netherland technique , for instance in Josquin 's ‘ Pange lingua ’ Mass ( see pp. 1767 ) , but in Palestrina and Victoria it is all-pervading , incantatory , the ideal music of mystical faith , totally purged of human emotion ( except occasionally in their motets ) and of human vanity — except the vanity of performers who ( we learn with a shock from Giovanni Bassano 's Motetti , Madrigali el Canzoni Francese di diversi eccellentissimi Auttori … |
| 9 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
| 10 | Uncensored in his own country until the 1968 invasion ( when he was put under an outright ban ) , he discovered his first novel to be published in the West had been rewritten from start to finish by the publisher . |
| 11 | A letter had arrived from Asba Tafari addressed to the head of my escort ; it had been passed from chief to chief . |
| 12 | It had been passed from hand to hand along a chain of trusted men until it came into his own , its message comprehensible only to his eyes . |
| 13 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 14 | On July 4 , 1989 , the Army announced that Dominique Prieur , the DGSE agent convicted of taking part in the bombing , had been promoted from captain to major [ for May 1990 UN adjudication on Rainbow Warrior affair see p. 37459 ] . |
| 15 | A journal publishing the new material which had been added from time to time to the machine-readable text . |
| 16 | In January 1986 , the then Lord Chancellor ( Lord Hailsham ) said that the rules had been reviewed from time to time and the judiciary of the Supreme Court and the Circuit bench consulted . |