Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv] [prep] the two " in BNC.
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1 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
2 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
3 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
4 | In between these two extremes comes the large mass of honourable and intelligent outdoor enthusiasts who listen to the frothings and bayings back and forth between the two factions with alarm , but without the detailed information from both sides which would enable them freely and democratically to make up their own minds , and if necessary bring their concerted pressure to bear on one side or the other to desist . |
5 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
6 | Actually , it 's a very pleasant way to work — I 've set up one room for word processing and another for screenshot manipulation , so I can switch back and forth between the two whilst I 'm writing captions . |