Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] to end " in BNC.

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1 The cloud rolled effortlessly and relentlessly down the slopes of the volcano , spreading out into a broad fan which rapidly engulfed St Pierre , and in the next two or three minutes killed all but two of the population , and set the town ablaze from end to end .
2 Meeting so many of you at our super readers ' events is also a terrific plus and 1991 has been hectic from beginning to end , thanks to Frances Barnes and her team , who , together with the hard-working Good Housekeeping Institute , arrange all our special reader occasions .
3 The sperm is about microns long from end to end .
4 It was then that the signal fire was lit which Allen watched from his tree-top. from end to end of the forest smoke rose in response , and when to east , to west , to south , and north the signal stations were assembled the message went out from the outlaws ' camp : ‘ The Cage is Open . ’
5 The buxom Mlle Gilles is called upon every 10 minutes to reveal her all ( or three-quarters of it ) and while this is no sight to be despised , she could have appeared stark-naked from beginning to end and still failed to distract our attention from the movie 's essential mediocrity . ’
6 In a few short weeks the scoops had torn a channel twenty feet wide from end to end , ripping the backbone out of Adventurers ' Fen …
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