Example sentences of "was [vb pp] from [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the brief administration of Sosuke Uno , Kaifu was plucked from obscurity in order to act as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Recruit scandal had receded . |
| 2 | You may have heard the horrific tale of the small boy who was painted from head to toe with a metallic-based substance for a carnival and who consequently died of respiratory failure . |
| 3 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 4 | Whereupon he opened a huge cupboard which was filled from top to bottom with homemade jams , marmalades , chutneys , and pickles — some of which were five years old ! |
| 5 | In one set of trials the type of match required was varied from trial to trial while in a second set of trials the same match was required for a fixed number of stimulus presentations . |
| 6 | The Witham was frozen from bank to bank from Lincoln to Boston . |
| 7 | We took the route through Cheapside because the Thames was frozen from bank to bank , past the mansions of the rich , the stalls full of fripperies , the mouldering Eleanor Cross and the great Conduit which was supposed to bring fresh water into the city . |
| 8 | In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’ |
| 9 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 10 | Although the commitment to religion was stressed from time to time , often in response to the charge of militarism , the CLB always seemed to emphasize matters of social discipline and conformity . |
| 11 | The city developed chiefly after 1040 , when the residence of the kings was transferred from Gniezno to Cracow , and stone buildings began to replace the wooden ones . |
| 12 | The school health service was transferred from LEAs to area health authorities , but LEAs were required to provide facilities for dental and medical inspection of pupils . |
| 13 | And that small , dark young man Simon Westward , who was seen from time to time around Knockglen , he was Eve 's first cousin . |
| 14 | Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold ! |
| 15 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 16 | The fountain erected in memory of Dr John Fothergill , founding member of the Darlington Temperance Society was moved from Bondgate to South Park in 1875 . |
| 17 | On April 27 Banda announced another Cabinet dissolution ; in the new Cabinet announced on May 2 , Mwakikunga was moved from Health to Community Services , in an exchange of portfolios with Katola Phiri , and Bwanali was dropped from the Cabinet , with his portfolio of Local Government taken by Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources Stanford Demba . |
| 18 | Michael Howard , another standard-bearer for the Right , was moved from Employment to Environment , the largest Whitehall department . |
| 19 | The whole thing was made from bits of scrap . ’ |
| 20 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Ayrshire we are extremely proud of the new hospital which was built from start to finish within five years , a record for anywhere in the country ? |
| 21 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 22 | Michael was saved from choking to death by David , who reached inside his mouth to move his tongue . |
| 23 | When she discovered also that Persian was written from right to left , she became convinced that his eyesight would suffer irreparable damage . |
| 24 | By 1974 , however , following the collapse in the property market , land was hawked from door to door by builders , estate agents , banks , speculators and private individuals . |
| 25 | I was washed from top to toe in Mrs Joe 's usual violent manner , and handed over , in my tightest Sunday clothes , to Mr Pumblechook . |
| 26 | But at the back the bodice was slit from collar to midriff and the skirt was daringly short . |
| 27 | In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase . |
| 28 | This was reiterated from time to time by showing them pages from the field notes and extracts from the data . |
| 29 | Chorus numbers were sung in full , and the Hoflin girl 's little solo in Act Two was performed from beginning to end , but Ingrid , who was singing Lisa — not such a heavy role , but she still had a couple of solos — was resting her voice again , and the rest just walked and hummed their roles . |
| 30 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |