Example sentences of "it from [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 14 | He opened the door to a large room completely bare except for a vast trestle-table that filled it from wall to wall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Theirs is an America of hardcore unemployment of gangs , of drugs and guns and struggle to make it from day to day . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He cut another slice of bread and spread the butter on it from edge to edge very carefully before he took a big bite . |
| 21 | She took it from rider to rider . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yes they just had one maybe one melodeon or one fiddle , but played for the whole dance and you could hear it from end to end of the hall . |
| 24 | ’ In the case of motor vehicles those purposes include , not merely the purpose of driving it from place to place but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling and pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 25 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 26 | Amdega will build it from start to finish or supply the materials only . |
| 27 | Steve Claridge of Witney made it from start to finish … |
| 28 | I know it 's a cliche but we really do have to take it from game to game — it 's the only way . ’ |
| 29 | We find allusive reference to it from time to time in Leonard 's writings and songs — always with a frisson of awe . |
| 30 | When you type in a document , saving it from time to time , Word does not destroy the very last version that you saved but renames it as a back-up copy . |