Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | they could only snatch a few minutes together from time to time , usually when Daddy came over to Low Fields to look after the cattle , or during the haytiming . |
| 2 | She tossed her head , sending the silky swath of hair tumbling over her shoulders , and sensed rather than saw the sudden shift of emotion away from anger to a raw wild passion that stole her breath and made her legs go weak . |
| 3 | The Random House general book division will be divided into two operating groups , allowing editors to see their authors ' books through from hardback to paperback publication ( or to choose which they find most appropriate ) . |
| 4 | She slewed her eyes furtively from side to side and then said with awed relish : |
| 5 | By evening she had picked her way down the cliff to the rocky ledges at the water 's edge , and was the object of interest of two seals , who popped their whiskery noses up from time to time to observe her . |
| 6 | If you are casting off a long length , then move the weight up from time to time , but always keep it actually on the cast off edge . |
| 7 | When Marcus came in for supper , two hours later , Daniel 's Mum was still talking , to Stephanie , who was in and out of the kitchen dishing up vegetables and making gravy , to her son , who moved his weight cautiously from time to time on a dining-room chair and frowned and frowned . |
| 8 | He smiled back at them , shifting his weight smoothly from foot to foot as he reversed , turned again and was off at an ever accelerating pace round the bend of the lake and swiftly out of sight . |
| 9 | Instead of being at the controls , he was desperately clinging on while the engines , at full throttle , thrust the boat violently from side to side as a host of faction fighters wrestled to grab the wheel — or in most cases to avoid touching it . |
| 10 | Measurements suggest that the crossing over from production to destruction of O 3 occurs at an altitude of 28km . |
| 11 | David sees cases through from beginning to end , an important aspect of the firm 's training programme . |
| 12 | Bill Thompson and I , as the reporters who had seen the case through from start to finish , were invited officially to be present at the hanging in Regina Jail . |
| 13 | Whilst there is always someone I can go to with a problem , on most occasions I see a case through from start to finish ’ . |
| 14 | She learned to love the school which tried to be a home away from home to the 120 girls . |
| 15 | It represents a complete turnaround rather than a minor course correction ; a turning away from sin to salvation and service in Christ . |
| 16 | ‘ You had a great head on you the way you thought the plan through from beginning to end . |
| 17 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 18 | Dyson could imagine Lord Boddy and the executives gathered around him putting deference aside from time to time in order to get on with the gardening , or to discipline some delinquent guardsman . |
| 19 | Thus canons often have tonic and dominant relationships , and in order to preserve a single tonality the 4th leap downwards from tonic to dominant often has to be followed by a leap of a 5th ( dominant down to tonic ) . |
| 20 | There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered . |
| 21 | He reached down , then gently squeezed her breasts ; thrusting the lower part of his body against her , he moved his hips gently from side to side . |
| 22 | We analysed these data ourselves , and found that many subject departments sent individuals or small groups to the library in connection with subject or project work , while others seem to have brought whole classes down from time to time . |
| 23 | ‘ You could knock this wall down , and make one large room through from front to back . ’ |
| 24 | The evidence lies in the changing occupational structure , in particular the shift away from manufacturing to service industry . |
| 25 | Peat-based products that are not from SSSIs will continue to be stocked , but according to a spokeswoman the move is a part of an overall shift away from peat to substitutes . |
| 26 | While Ipswich are one game away from the National League title , Chelmsford are one place away from relegation to the Second Division but when it comes to March 28 the league will seem a million miles away and both sides will have their sights set firmly on a semi-final place . |
| 27 | As it does so , it swings its body slightly from side to side , like a machine-gunner raking the enemy ranks . |
| 28 | He ‘ s had a couple of bumps , as well , one of which has left a long and jagged crease in the body almost from headlight to tail-light ; that one was n't his fault , but he drove away from it fast to avoid the questions that would certainly follow . |
| 29 | Second , the 20 years from the mid-fifties provided a period of only marginal differences in programmes both from election to election and between the parties . |
| 30 | Other artisan groups also from time to time found themselves on the receiving end of employer " impositions " . |