Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] from [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am invited from time to time to sow the seeds of Medau , and last time Brown Owl allowed me to present each girl with a Medau leaflet . |
| 2 | Deep breath , hold it and so on until I 'm photographed from neck to thigh . |
| 3 | I was moved from home to home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was promoted from Aquarius to Ganymede , forsaking water for wine . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The three departments , however , do use official statistics in the detailed studies which are done from time to time on a one-off basis . |
| 9 | The overall law of this country is laid down and maintained by Parliament by means of Acts which are passed from time to time . |
| 10 | Some members like to come back to Bristol for social events like the Alumni Foundation concerts or the sports reunions which are organised from time to time . |
| 11 | Gallery houses a collection of work by Sir Alfred East R.A. ( 1849–1913 ) , and other artists with Kettering connections which are shown from time to time . |
| 12 | Far easier , as they are normally written in either European , or more probably Arabic numerals ( which are read from right to left ) , and conform to one of three calendar systems . |
| 13 | Perhaps people can only address the meeting when they hold a certain talisman ( which is passed from speaker to speaker ) . |
| 14 | Since instructions are processed from left to right on this computer ( unlike data which is processed from right to left ) , the characters of an instruction are picked up until a word mark is reached ( indicating the beginning of the next instruction ) ; the instruction is then executed . |
| 15 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Ayrshire we are extremely proud of the new hospital which was built from start to finish within five years , a record for anywhere in the country ? |
| 16 | Govan car sheds were reputedly haunted by a figure which was seen from time to time in a driving compartment of a car but on investigation the figure had disappeared and was nowhere to be found ; the cab was empty yet strangely cold ! |
| 17 | MI6 is supposed to operate only outside Britain although it does occasionally get involved in projects within Britain such as the Crabb affair of 1956 ( see Chapter 3 ) , which was bungled from start to finish . |
| 18 | Whereupon he opened a huge cupboard which was filled from top to bottom with homemade jams , marmalades , chutneys , and pickles — some of which were five years old ! |
| 19 | The professor will be qualified for election as one of the official members of the Boards of the Faculties of Mathematical Sciences and Physical Sciences who are elected from time to time by the respective faculties from the lists of qualified persons to hold office for two years . |
| 20 | Patients , particularly women who are conditioned from childhood to be accepting rather than questioning , are given the sense that they must n't try to invade medical territory . |
| 21 | ‘ What else can it be when you 're covered from head to toe in foul little pustules ? ’ |
| 22 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 23 | The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it . |
| 24 | For example , one sage quoted by Bodine railed against the custom of saying that X and Y were married , or worse , that Mr X was married to Miss Y. Propriety would be better served , he pointed out , if this fact were always expressed in terms of the woman being married to the man , since it is the woman who is passed from father to husband and loses her identity . |
| 25 | Therefore the letter to you is written from sky to sky . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She was painted from head to foot in red . |
| 28 | She was swathed from neck to knee in what appeared to be a ‘ coat ’ of many colours . |
| 29 | She was passed from hand to hand . |
| 30 | She was wrapped from head to foot in an old-fashioned opera cloak , of blue velvet . |