Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 2 | In my own case by the time I became chairman of ICI , I had not actively sold in the marketplace for nine years , although , of course , as a director of a large international company I was involved from time to time in negotiations of one sort or another . |
| 3 | My story was that I was the orphaned son of my father 's long-lost younger brother , and only staying on occasional extended holidays on the island while I was passed from relative to relative and my future was decided . |
| 4 | I was promoted from Aquarius to Ganymede , forsaking water for wine . |
| 5 | I was washed from top to toe in Mrs Joe 's usual violent manner , and handed over , in my tightest Sunday clothes , to Mr Pumblechook . |
| 6 | She was transferred from home to a private rehabilitation centre , but she was not happy there because she had little privacy , and her family could not travel to see her every day . |
| 7 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 8 | She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours . |
| 9 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 10 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |
| 11 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 12 | The village achieved its premier cru status in 1985 when it was upgraded from 88% to 90% . |
| 13 | Trafalgar bought the Port Glasgow yard from British Shipbuilders for just £12 million in 1984 , soon after it was converted from shipbuilding to offshore construction work . |
| 14 | Company exhibitions manager Rob Axon said : ‘ It was built from scratch to our own design and so will prove far better than the old trailer . |
| 15 | But even where it was extended from churches to houses , a spiritual asceticism seems to be its distinguishing characteristic . |
| 16 | The play was a two-hander , which meant that it was carried from beginning to end by the two stars . |
| 17 | I could n't tell much about him as he was covered from head to toe in red crash helmet with black visor , red riding leathers and red boots . |
| 18 | He was not only a fine footballer , he was also a gentleman to the Nth degree , and he told the story , I remember , he started his erm , professional football career in this country , with Barnsley , and he was transferred from Barnsley to Aston Villa , and at the time there was some haggling over the fee , and er , he was taken by the chairman of Barnsley , to meet the chairman of Aston Villa in the chairman 's Rolls Royce . |
| 19 | In middle age he became more patient as he was harried from city to city and lost all his papers in a shipwreck . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe he was lost from time to time , but that of course is inevitable in a down-market operation . |
| 21 | He was flown from Edinburgh to Manchester airport before being taken for a tearful re-union with his mother 's parents . |
| 22 | Another day he was sent from Washington to a Chinese vegetable stand on the Lower West Side in Manhattan , where he was told to ask for a person with the code name ‘ Mooey ’ ; Mooey went behind the counter , rolled up his trouser-leg and pulled out a wad of hundred-dollar bills , which Owen thought ‘ I had better count anyways . ’ |
| 23 | He was dressed from head to foot in white . |
| 24 | When I first saw him I could n't believe my eyes — he was dressed from head to toe in khaki . |
| 25 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 26 | He was buffeted from side to side , and swore in what Anne thought was an Australian accent . |
| 27 | Then , on D'Arcy 's insistence , he was passed from extension to extension . |
| 28 | She looked at Phil ; he was encased from top to toe in black leather , as always . |
| 29 | His extraordinary conceit and capacity for intrigue spilled over into a genuine mental instability and in 1869 he was removed from Rome to a lunatic asylum in a convent at Passy , a suburb of Paris . |
| 30 | He was taken from home to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital but was found to be already dead . |