Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters went to and fro from Wawne to Rome with no result , until eventually the Pope sent an indignant letter ordering the Wawne clergy to stop the practice or risk punishment . |
| 2 | We were broke , so I accepted , and Dana took me on his bike to and fro from Bath to Corsham throughout the next six weeks . |
| 3 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 4 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 5 | A line to connect Port Augusta to Darwin and thence by sea to India and the rest of Asia was begun in the 1920s but got no further than Alice Springs , reached in 1929 . |
| 6 | From Constanza I returned to England , travelling third class across Europe , by train to Bucharest and Budapest , by boat up the Danube to Vienna , and thence by train to Prague , Berlin and Ostend . |
| 7 | He aimed at fifteen miles a day , and they would march down the southern flanks of the Pentland Hills , to Biggar and Broughton and thence by Tweedsmuir to Moffat , at the head of Annandale , some sixty miles . |
| 8 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 9 | It is near this point that the Pennine Way crosses Swaledale from Tan Hill over the bleak mass of Stonesdale Moor , falling down into Keld and on by Thwaite to Shunner Fell . |
| 10 | With local , with in-house teams it means that we are protected from that ever happening , and I hope that our in-house teams will continue to go on and on from strength to strength , valuable resource to the county council . |
| 11 | From the producers ' point of view , it is the single most sought after ‘ grape variety ’ in the world , and right from Britain to Chile and New Zealand ( and even India ! ) more and more vineyards are being planted with it in preference to any other . |
| 12 | Suffice it to say here that the word ‘ feudal ’ is used frequently and loosely in relation to Japan , and this use has been based either on the existence in Japan of certain features associated with European feudalism , such as a military code of honour , or on a specific interpretation of the relations of production in Japanese society before the late nineteenth century . |
| 13 | The relevant factors will vary from company to company , from SBU to SBU , and perhaps from investment to investment , so they must be determined by reference to specifically relevant competitive-strengths criteria . |
| 14 | The tour travelled up the west coast to Oban , round the far north and down through Inverness to Aberdeen and Edinburgh , finishing up in Dumfries . |
| 15 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 16 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 17 | Knead comfortably up and down from side to side , then knead the sides of the waist . |
| 18 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 19 | The generations of Marxists who have lived through the grievous experience of Fascism and who , in another order of things , have experienced Stalinist degeneration , appraise the concept of democracy in a different way [ from Lenin ] , and not in opposition to socialism and communism , but as a road towards them and as a main component of them . |
| 20 | from that material , and thus from liability to search , production , or seizure , there are excluded ‘ items subject to legal privilege ’ which are defined in section 10(1) . |
| 21 | There is little to distinguish between the Italian character dance and its demi - caractère form save only that heeled shoes are worn and thus from time to time take on a slightly Spanish flavour , the only difference perhaps being the more fluid way of phrasing and less rigidly accurate timing of the steps . |
| 22 | The melt regimes under ridges and hotspots are usually modelled as regions that are zoned laterally and vertically with respect to degree of partial melting . |
| 23 | Five boards were sawn off either side and once from end to end , and when these ten , destined for side panelling , were cut , the log was turned , and thirty boards of narrower width sawn for end panels , thus utilising all the wood possible . ’ |
| 24 | Fairham asked , perplexed , his gaze shifting back and forth from Nicholson to Porter . |
| 25 | Thus people will readily switch back and forth from money to other assets . |
| 26 | WHEN she is n't flying back and forth from England to Australia , Sarah Key helps the rich and famous to get into shape . |
| 27 | Donna frowned and put her foot down , coaxing more speed from the Volvo , her eyes flicking back and forth from windscreen to rear-view mirror . |
| 28 | The scientist shuffled uneasily , looking back and forth from Cardiff to Rohmer . |
| 29 | The camera tracks back and forth from bedroom to kitchen as the servants go about their chores . |
| 30 | Three basic points are fixed on a plaster model of the original and on the marble block , and the frame transferred back and forth from model to block , each point being marked by drilling a hole to the required depth . |