Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rushed forward to the battery box , loosened the terminal caps and moved them from side to side . |
| 2 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 3 | He took a chestnut from the pan and bounced it from hand to hand as he turned cheerily to enquire after Mrs Frere 's welfare . |
| 4 | The modernization of the Meadowell estate , which transformed it from flats to terraced houses and dramatically reduced the density of occupation , was a consequence of the availability of central government assistance intended to stimulate employment opportunities in the construction industry as a corrective to general problems of unemployment in the early 1970s . |
| 5 | cos we called it changed it from Lisa to Anna for mum . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age — warm to cold to warm repeated several times — the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate , sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man . |
| 10 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 11 | An architect by profession , he took six months off work to help the builders make the house habitable , and then he and Anne painted it from top to bottom in a vibrant range of colour schemes , theirs is the tonic to take : the narrow winding staircase is an orangey red , the kitchen a pale blue , the living room a shade of yellow , the conservatory woodwork a blue-green , and so on . |
| 12 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 13 | It got you from A to B in one piece , as Adam 's father remarked sneeringly of it . |
| 14 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 15 | Then the front zip of her jeans yielded to his importuning hands and he eased away a little so that his fingers could slide inside , seeking , exploring , sensitising , until shudders shook her from head to foot . |
| 16 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 17 | She turned her from pink to soft blue and grey-green and gold , to the satisfaction of everyone with an eye for colour . |
| 18 | She faced it from time to time , charged up her hate battery , reminded herself . |
| 19 | She persuaded them to invest in ten rolls of wallpaper bought from a corner shop that sold everything from paraffin to knickers . |
| 20 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 21 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 22 | Sophie followed him from cage to cage and saw that everything was very hygenic and that the accommodation was roomy and warm . |
| 23 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There was little to show that we were on an island , for the snow covered everything from horizon to horizon . |
| 26 | Even so , many an intrepid user carted one from pillar to post while keeping an eye out for a mains socket . |
| 27 | Chapman 's accurate assessment of Male 's qualities was shown too when he switched him from wing-half to full-back . |
| 28 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 29 | His father 's smell seemed to be impregnated in the large cotton shirt that covered him from neck to calf . |
| 30 | The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day . |