Example sentences of "[pn reflx] from [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ We all have to think of ourselves from time to time , do n't we ? ’ |
| 2 | He had stripped naked , running his shorts halfway up the ankle-chain to keep them dry , and sponged himself from head to foot , scouring his skin with the sponge to try to keep clean . |
| 3 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 4 | He examined himself from head to foot , assessing without vanity the beauty that had once given him an honest pleasure , and he marked without fear the changes that moved in upon him now daily . |
| 5 | He spat the stuff from his lips , then began the long difficult scramble up the hillside , hauling himself from tree to tree by clinging to the network of roots growing above ground . |
| 6 | He also distances himself from approaches to the study of media ‘ impact ’ which conceive of them in a fairly narrow way . |
| 7 | Backwards , raising himself from step to step on his backside . |
| 8 | It is often a matter of history repeating itself from generation to generation and , under this Government , even within a single generation . |
| 9 | But as she waited an obstinately persistent sound filled her head , drove itself from ear to ear , settled over her eyes and seeped through to fill the whole arena of her cranium . |
| 10 | In reality , it is a social and economic problem which is not fixed to a particular geographical space but which can transfer itself from place to place if it is not tackled at its source . |
| 11 | She wore jeans and a sweatshirt that night — and then felt foolish because she knew he would realise instantly why she was covering herself from head to toe . |
| 12 | Martha saved herself from relegation to a junior class by reciting the whole of Psalm 103 , one of Nana 's favourites , in morning assembly ; after this feat her teacher had a long conversation above her head with her mother , and began to come to their house on Saturdays to give her extra lessons . |
| 13 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 14 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 15 | Congress , there 's a very familiar phrase which is often used in the English language , a phrase which many of you may have used yourselves from time to time . |
| 16 | ‘ It would seem that you ca n't even get yourself from A to B without making a mess of it . |
| 17 | Here , Linda Parker looks at a range of beauty products that you can use at home to pamper yourself from head to toe |
| 18 | It is almost impossible to stand up , and you haul yourself from building to building , from stanchion to stanchion as if on board a ship rounding the Horn in a nor'wester . |
| 19 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 20 | You could n't help but contradict yourself from time to time . |
| 21 | Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) . |
| 22 | But , given that brains , books and computers exist , these new replicators , which I called memes to distinguish them from genes , can propagate themselves from brain to brain , from brain to book , from book to brain , from brain to computer , from computer to computer . |
| 23 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 24 | It was the concrete embodiment of the principle of popular sovereignty : not the people choosing a government once every four or five or seven years , but the people continuously governing themselves from month to month and year to year . |
| 25 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 26 | They need to be rooted out of themselves from time to time . |
| 27 | The majority of glaziers and glass merchants find themselves from time to time with either ‘ salvage ’ plate glass from broken shop windows or ‘ off cuts ’ from new shop windows , explained Malcolm . |