Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | to see you from time to time |
| 32 | A change of position may help to minimise this , such as raising the head or turning them from side to side . |
| 33 | For nearly two years , Shanti was reluctant to let me out of her sight , and would follow me from room to room , into the bathroom , wherever it might be . |
| 34 | The warmth that Alain had shown her from time to time had quite gone now and she knew he would continue to be an enemy . |
| 35 | It was conceivable , she supposed , that if she remained in the village she might see him from time to time , and if she was lucky , she thought bleakly , he might even speak to her . |
| 36 | Yes and the kids can drop round and see her from time to time . |
| 37 | Now he was hopelessly confused and lost , and the fear he had extended himself to contain shook him from head to foot as they unstrapped him and stood him on his feet again . |
| 38 | Then the front zip of her jeans yielded to his importuning hands and he eased away a little so that his fingers could slide inside , seeking , exploring , sensitising , until shudders shook her from head to foot . |
| 39 | A spasm of delight shook her from head to toe as he plundered her neck . |
| 40 | She turned her from pink to soft blue and grey-green and gold , to the satisfaction of everyone with an eye for colour . |
| 41 | He is a born teacher , who always keeps his pupil in mind , gently leads him from point to point and is always ready to anticipate his next question or objection . |
| 42 | I read it from cover to cover and keep every copy . |
| 43 | She faced it from time to time , charged up her hate battery , reminded herself . |
| 44 | Tired of copying files to floppy so you can move them from machine to machine ? |
| 45 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 46 | He phones me from time to time when he has heard something he thinks will be of use to me . |
| 47 | Coaches would transport them from place to place , their costumes hanging above their heads . |
| 48 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 49 | He can usher you from chaos to comfort in mere moments . |
| 50 | There are free buses to ferry you from hotel to cable-car stations and the town has a warm , friendly atmosphere . |
| 51 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
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| 53 | I followed by car and burro , tracking him from town to town . |
| 54 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 55 | He has been protected by a team of Special Branch officers , moving him from location to location . |
| 56 | Sophie followed him from cage to cage and saw that everything was very hygenic and that the accommodation was roomy and warm . |
| 57 | And you know it from cover to cover ? |
| 58 | I get it from time to time . |
| 59 | He is a prominent member of the Christadelphians sect which mounted the exhibition and takes it from town to town , week by week , year by year . |
| 60 | Workers pass it from mouth to mouth or gather one another 's excrement in order to reprocess the partially digested food and extract the last particle of nutriment from it . |