Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods .
2 While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office .
3 I remember black faced miners and not so black faced shipyard workers passing to and fro to the nearby yards or the ‘ G ’ pit at the end of the street .
4 Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands .
5 No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation .
6 He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens .
7 Shortly after the English army 's murderous assault on Berwick , in 1296 , Bothwell fell into English hands and for the remainder of the Wars of Independence the castle passed to and fro between the opposing forces .
8 The reading knob must be slid to and fro from the far ends of the slot .
9 He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair .
10 The formula was to be used , with suitable modifications , right up to and occasionally beyond the 1940s .
11 In the absence of widespread sampling of days uncertainty will remain as to whether all of the potential sources of a particular clay have been located .
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