Example sentences of "a [noun sg] from [noun] to end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students are taught , for instance , to ‘ read ’ in a different way from that of everyday practice : rather than reading a text from beginning to end in the sequence in which the publisher has ordered it , they are urged to select what they want for particular purposes from different parts of the text , using the contents page , index , chapter headings etc. and moving backwards and forwards within that text and to other texts . |
| 2 | A failure from beginning to end . |
| 3 | You can read a newspaper from beginning to end and you can write better than those fellas who keep the thing goin' . |
| 4 | The heavy freight diesel replacement policy was a muddle from beginning to end . |
| 5 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 6 | The wedding breakfast was a feast , and the champagne flowed like water ; the party went with a swing from beginning to end . |
| 7 | I had never done a drawing solely in watercolour crayons before , and so the whole piece of work was a challenge from beginning to end to end . |
| 8 | Then the drifting cloud that had massed before the rising sun parted , and a single shaft of direct light leaped through the east window , setting the rose tracery ablaze with glowing colours , and flew like a lance from end to end of the church , calling out of shadow the strong , slender ribs that patterned the vault with great starry flowers , turning the roofrib to gold , and glittering in the curls of all the singing cherubim on the painted bosses . |