Example sentences of "it [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Duke held his branch still higher , waving it slowly from side to side , and the piper started a long , echoing note on his drone . |
| 2 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 3 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 4 | There was movement there ; movement and light , as if someone was shining a torch beam on it , swinging it wildly from side to side . |
| 5 | Over a period of three hundred years , black people have achieved a growing presence in sport in Britain yet it seems pathetic that we have no account for it apart from reference to the mysterious attribute called natural ability . |
| 6 | Tilda alternately nodded her head and shook it violently from side to side . |
| 7 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |