Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 And so she continued , through three years , through a series of such violent changes ; she inspected herself anxiously from time to time for signs of manic-depression or schizophrenia , but she could find nothing but symptoms of increasingly quick recovery .
2 Tilda alternately nodded her head and shook it violently from side to side .
3 Her navigation system guided her infallibly from waypoint to waypoint .
4 You worked it out from beginning to end .
5 Mrs Denham wore heavily-rimmed glasses , and she took them off from time to time , restlessly , as she talked : the crows ' feet round her eyes were deeply scored , and her eyes without their glasses had a distant , worried look , as though committed to far other fields of concentration .
6 He raised an eyebrow and looked her over from head to toe .
7 So I thought , ‘ Ah , I 'll just write it anyway , ’ so I made it up from beginning to end .
8 Their situation was similar to the well-known triangular struggle between the Barretts of Wimpole Street , Elizabeth colluding with her father in an illness which kept her tied to home until Robert Browning won her away from invalidism to health through marriage .
9 And what better community could you get than in Spring Street , he would ask , for had n't it a shop that supplied food , and two others that fitted you out from top to bottom ?
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