Example sentences of "it from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 2 | A soluble form of this protein could bind to the virus and prevent it from binding to human T cells . |
| 3 | The audience can pick up the dramatic thread running through the cadenza and make sense of it from beginning to end . ’ |
| 4 | She first saw Dogs Today on the newsstand , reads it from cover to cover and then keeps it . |
| 5 | I read it from cover to cover and keep every copy . |
| 6 | And you know it from cover to cover ? |
| 7 | Eva read it from cover to cover ; films , music , book reviews as well as the politics . |
| 8 | In the " Lady Chatterley " case Mr Justice Byrne instructed his jury to consider the total effect of the work after reading it from cover to cover . |
| 9 | Conservative plans would split it from top to bottom in a complex network of charging that pitted patients against doctors , doctors against hospitals , hospitals against charities and charities against patients . |
| 10 | Conservative plans would split it from top to bottom , he said , in a complex network of charging that pitted patients against doctors , doctors against hospitals , hospitals against charities and charities against patients . |
| 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 | How far is it from London to ( i ) Clacton and ( ii ) Great Yarmouth — in kilometres , and in time distance ? |
| 13 | To speak loosely , a causal circumstance does not include two or more links of any one causal line running through it from past to future . |
| 14 | cos we called it changed it from Lisa to Anna for mum . |
| 15 | Indeed the ex-editor of Classical Music contacted the publisher to ask why they had reverted to Times as the body copy typeface , he had changed it from Times to ITC Clearface , and was duly surprised to find that the reason was to do with the fact that the title was being produced on a desktop publishing system . |
| 16 | Expert bakers in the trade and er they showed you it from A to Z. |
| 17 | The Sahara is home to the Tuareg and they can be found right the way across it from Algeria to Nigeria . |
| 18 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 19 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 20 | Billie lay there , imagining Adam with that smart-arse grin across his face , as he watched the girl abuse his body , lick it from toe to top . |
| 21 | There is an imaginary line , or they used to call it from Birmingham to the Wash anything below that is the south . |
| 22 | If you use it from floor to ceiling in a recess — say the recesses either side of a chimney breast — it will look as if you can walk into a whole extra room next door . |
| 23 | Theirs is an America of hardcore unemployment of gangs , of drugs and guns and struggle to make it from day to day . |
| 24 | I wondered if Charlie really knew this , felt this , or whether his life as he lived it from day to day was as fucked-up and perplexed as everyone else 's . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | How far is it from Freeport to Miami ? |
| 27 | She unearthed an ancient bicycle from some forgotten shed corner and proceeded to ride it from cottage to cottage , her sackful of letters stuffed compactly into a basket in the front . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know how he is supposed to have made it from Carluke to the bar in Motherwell if he did kill the girl at the time it was said he did . |
| 29 | He cut another slice of bread and spread the butter on it from edge to edge very carefully before he took a big bite . |
| 30 | ‘ I built one specifically to a seven-note design and the loco carried it from Paddington to Sheffield . |