Example sentences of "to and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The reading knob must be slid to and fro from the far ends of the slot . |
| 8 | He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair . |
| 9 | The formula was to be used , with suitable modifications , right up to and occasionally beyond the 1940s . |