Example sentences of "her [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced over her slowly from head to foot , taking in the sleeveless green cotton dress with its tight bodice and full skirt that had seemed so modest when she had put it on . |
| 2 | The whiteness of his shirt seemed to emphasise his tan , but it was something in the glittering gaze , raking her slowly from head to toe , that made her hesitate . |
| 3 | He raised an eyebrow and looked her over from head to toe . |
| 4 | He had deceived her utterly from start to finish , and such calculated deceit was a downright insult ! |
| 5 | Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage . |
| 6 | The Baroness had moved her up from London to Docklow . |
| 7 | Her navigation system guided her infallibly from waypoint to waypoint . |
| 8 | It moved with her silently from room to room , breathing softly against the back of her neck . |
| 9 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 10 | The disapproval she had sometimes sensed from him , and that had bothered her fleetingly from time to time , had erupted into a torrent of burning hatred at the discovery that , in spite of the fortune his father had showered on him , Ryan had died in a state of virtual penury . |
| 11 | The brisk social wind that had driven her lightly from guest to guest had dropped , stilled by telephonic contact with the tiny scratching clicking silence of the voiceless house of the long ordeal of her childhood : she found herself becalmed , for a whole dull stretch , talking to old Peter Binns , a charming old boy , but a bore , and so slow of speech that Liz could hardly restrain herself from finishing all his ponderous sentences . |