Example sentences of "from top to [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 The curds are then cut with a curd knife , from top to bottom and from side to side , and , after a short time , the curd sinks to the bottom of the vat and the whey rises .
2 In a struggle on the ground , my raincoat was torn from top to bottom and Bardely exclaimed ‘ He 's biting my little finger off . ’
3 So she caught me up and turned me round , feeling my load from top to bottom and every side .
4 Rotating through 180 degrees would produce a pattern for knitting from top to bottom and rotating through 45 degrees would produce a pattern for a diagonal or bias knit .
5 Europeans tend to structure their notes ( and their thinking ) in linear fashion — that is , from top to bottom and from left to right on the page .
6 In fact I have a bill somewhere where the next door to me at at the shop on Street was papered from top to bottom and the total bill for the paper and labour I think is under three pounds and that included el e e e eleven rolls for a staircase .
7 ‘ She says she wo n't move back in here until we redecorate the whole office from top to bottom and hold a bloody seance . ’
8 The column itself is decorated by a long relief frieze wound round from top to bottom and representing episodes from the Emperor 's Dacian campaigns .
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