Example sentences of "her [noun sg] from [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offred does n't tell her story from beginning to end . |
| 2 | She shifted her weight from foot to foot , uncertain and bewildered . |
| 3 | Trembling with shock , she leaned against a sundial and re-ran the disastrous interview in her mind from start to finish . |
| 4 | All these uneasy feelings that were at the back of her mind from time to time . |
| 5 | By the end of the afternoon she had replaced her wardrobe from top to tail , had acquired an evening dress that was out of this world , and had had her hair freshly washed and styled . |
| 6 | A stoical metronome , she moves only to brush a hand across her brow from time to time . |
| 7 | Poising acrobatically upon one leg then the other , Meh'Lindi proceeded to spray her body from toe to neck with black synthetic skin . |
| 8 | Ruth wore Mrs Carson 's lavender cast-off with her one and only bonnet , and was therefore all the more pleased by Sean 's appreciative look as his glance took in her appearance from top to toe . |
| 9 | A quick encompassing movement of his light eyes absorbed every detail of her appearance from top to toe , before he stood back . |
| 10 | This Sara Monroe was much prettier than he had expected , judging from the numerous snaps and photographs of her at all stages of her development from baby to schoolgirl to young woman , which were strewn about Moorlake House . |
| 11 | Ana seemed to pick up the vibes very quickly and tagged along with Mitch , laughing at his humour , turning her head from time to time in Maggie 's direction as if she could hear steam coming from her ears . |
| 12 | You ca n't let him act like that ! ’ continued the other woman , and Agnes noticed that as she spoke she kept rapidly shaking her head from left to right and right to left , at the same time lifting her shoulders and eyebrows expressing indignant astonishment that someone had refused to respect her friend 's human rights . |
| 13 | She was still shaking her head from side to side and laughing softly when she shooed him from the kitchen and returned her attention to her magazine . |
| 14 | Julie stood on the sea wall and moved her head from side to side allowing the fresh wind from the estuary to blow through her hair . |
| 15 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 16 | and tears , her neck aches from turning her head from side to side to avoid his mouth and her jaw from clamping itself shut . |
| 17 | His voice was no more than a faint whisper now but it was as if his words were spraying vitriol on her face , because she tossed her head from side to side as if throwing off the spray . |
| 18 | She wagged her head from side to side . |
| 19 | Lying back on her pillows , Elinor slowly shook her head from side to side but said nothing . |
| 20 | Then she sat down and shook her head from side to side at her daughter , disbelief in her eyes . |
| 21 | The larger chimp pulled herself up and rested her face against the bars , watching him sideways , while Fifi grinned and shook her head from side to side . |
| 22 | She hovered for a brief time over the trunk of the tree , tears streaming from her eyes , shuddering as the axes continued to cut into the wood , shaking her head from side to side . |
| 23 | Then she slithered into Lytham with 'em , Shaking out a rhythm with 'em , Wobb-er-ling and jogg-er-ling Her head from side to side . |
| 24 | But Jenna was too lost to reality to answer and when he unfastened the buttons on her blouse and found the high , taut peaks of her breasts she tossed her head from side to side in delight as his lips caressed them . |
| 25 | She stood , arms extended but bent , and slowly moved her head from side to side . |
| 26 | She shakes her head from side to side , her loose lip-flesh wobbling . |
| 27 | Isabel screamed again , twisting her head from side to side , catapulted brutally into panic-stricken hysteria . |
| 28 | Medusa turned her head from side to side , smiling , indicating enchantment : ‘ Oh , but you will love it , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Kim shook her head from side to side , |
| 30 | She put her hands to her cheeks and rocked her head from side to side . |