Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] from [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front . |
| 2 | Her left arm hung uselessly at her side , agony tearing through it from shoulder to wrist as the circulation returned . |
| 3 | Everyone , I think , is vulnerable to the guest , or guests that descend upon you from time to time . |
| 4 | Because she is a woman , John glances at her from time to time : because she is a woman . |
| 5 | He had watched her cast aside her thin robe , and he had smiled with such infinite love and such intimacy , that pain had twisted through her from breast to womb . |
| 6 | ‘ This course is made for me from tee to green but I 've got a lot to learn on the greens , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 8 | He 's talked to me from time to time . |
| 9 | He told me that he called regularly at Koraloona , and that I probably would run across him from time to time . |
| 10 | Cold came spreading through her from head to foot , slowly ; she felt it in her lips most , an unnatural iciness . |
| 11 | He has read it before but he dips into it from time to time as a priest might consult the Bible in preparation for a sermon , or a poisoner Feltman 's Toxicology in preparation for a murder . |
| 12 | As a whole , in spite of the splendour of much of the singing , this ca n't quite replace present recommendations , particularly those in the historic field , but I am sure it thrilled the audience in the Suntory Hall a year ago and I shall return to it from time to time for its visceral force and its sense of a tension well sustained . |
| 13 | Madam Deputy Speaker I only wanted to make a short intervention er er on this point and I think I will return to it from time to time because it is a perennial , annual problem of every time the minister introduces a a rule and regulation we can understand it 's extremely useful and how can one say that er regulations about fraud are not useful , it 's just the culture of our country has been besieged by these rules and regulations and I 'm surprised that anybody can actually make any profit or do any business simply because of the weight of officialdom and the weight of rules and regulations which prevents them from getting above er the the surface . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He stopped and stared at her rather alarmingly , his eyes running over her from head to foot . |
| 16 | Indeed my wife believes that if when I die I am cut in half , the letters ICI will be found stamped through me from top to bottom , like Blackpool rock . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 18 | His arm lay against hers from shoulder to elbow and there was nothing they could do about it . |
| 19 | A shadow fell on them from time to time , from his own past as well as from hers , and it seemed then that they were threatened by some evil which could blot out their joy at a moment 's notice . |
| 20 | His gaze swept over her from head to foot . |
| 21 | Timothy , although a regular caller , had n't mentioned the alternative to Yelton again , but the way he looked at her from time to time made words unnecessary . |
| 22 | While Oliver was eating , the strange boy looked at him from time to time with great attention . |
| 23 | There are three small boys who call on us from time to time , ‘ just visiting ’ , as they put it . |
| 24 | Has this happened to you from time to time ? |
| 25 | Remember to check on them from time to time and water them carefully if the compost seems dry . |
| 26 | And they all smiled at her from time to time . |
| 27 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I feel so silly with my lord gazing at me from head to foot and Sir Jacob grinning and laughing like an oaf . |
| 28 | It is a real link , not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ relationship . |
| 29 | WML is a real link not just a ‘ we 'll be thinking of you from time to time ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll check on you from time to time . ’ |