Example sentences of "it [adv] from [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 Then on , they 'd got it on from time to happy time , eaten together every week , seen movies , theatre , films , drag , done disco , reggae , boogie …
2 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 .
3 It is also present in milk and eggs , and the body takes it in from exposure to sunshine as well , which is one reason why it is so important for the elderly to take outdoor exercise .
4 That 's right , a family thing , you hand it down from generation to generation
5 For a small charge , avoid having to carry luggage by booking it through from airport to destination .
6 The way in which community care projects get off the ground quickly is to have a small project team of three or four people with the task of steering it through from start to finish , working under the guidance of a strong chairman .
7 I put it off from day to day out of pity for myself .
8 So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end .
9 You worked it out from beginning to end .
10 Scrub it out from top to bottom .
11 This method has the added advantage that , because it will be possible to subtract all the lower numbers without carrying anything at all , you can work it out from left to right .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 There was movement there ; movement and light , as if someone was shining a torch beam on it , swinging it wildly from side to side .
15 Well it seems to me , sir , that er the new settlement is becoming a bit of a dustbin which people are throwing their unspent allocations in , and then passing it around from district to district
16 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 .
17 Tilda alternately nodded her head and shook it violently from side to side .
18 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 .
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