Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was trembling now from head to foot . |
| 2 | I was trembling violently from head to foot . |
| 3 | The parrot was scuttling along from arm to arm across his shoulders . |
| 4 | Once , when play had been suspended at Little Aston because of rain , Norman Sutton , that fine striker with the double-handed grip , was recalling a tournament in which the wind was blowing hard from right to left across the eighteenth . |
| 5 | She was swinging slowly from side to side , like a pendulum . |
| 6 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 7 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |