Example sentences of "to and [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although the SMPAs last for 3–4 hours and move parallel to and ahead of the front , a theoretical explanation for the size of SMPAs is still required .
2 This quarter of the town appears to have contained buildings of quality which ran right up to and even over the defences of the late second century .
3 Stretching up to and away from the patio was a vast lawn , smothered with spring flowers — yellow daffodils and a parade of brilliant hyacinths .
4 CAT Protein Network System should be applied prior to and immediately after a perm service to increase hair strength and maintain condition .
5 Prior to and immediately after the operation , the weapon would be holstered erm and secured by means of a strap across er the hammer of the weapon .
6 In the morning I went ashore with the captain in a bumboat , passing a variety of small craft that plied to and fro across the straits .
7 The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces .
8 Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook .
9 They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships .
10 Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies .
11 Prostates , bypasses , hip replacements and renal surgery swung to and fro across the table .
12 He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office .
13 In the aftermath of Bermuda , goodwill surged to and fro across the Atlantic .
14 Incidentally , this picture of the working of Ashington suggests all sorts of local routes to and fro across the parish in performing these various activities .
15 I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud .
16 Marcus , putting his hands upon the board at the foot , moved the bed slightly on its casters , moving it gently to and fro with a movement as of one rocking a cradle .
17 A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate .
18 Similarly for ‘ punchball ’ , the predominant way of signing it was threefold : shape ( ball on a stick ) , movement ( springs to and fro on a pivot ) and how a person interacts with it ( hands punching alternately ) ; these three are salient features .
19 While they waited , Lissa made hot drinks , then stood apart and listened as Rourke spoke quietly with the woman , who still rocked slowly to and fro on the settee .
20 Arms flick to and fro as the Winter Fairy and the Stars of Ashton 's Cinderella give the illusion of twinkling lights in the frosty air .
21 If the rolling circle in a hypocycloid has a radius half the length of the fixed circle , point P simply moves to and fro along a diameter .
22 Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across .
23 She stood up and began pacing restlessly to and fro along the balcony .
24 Its larvae bore voraciously to and fro along the grain of the wood , generally under a thin , intact surface .
25 There is no legal right to protect or demonstrate — merely a right for the present to say what one likes provided that it is lawful whether by way of ‘ protest ’ or otherwise ; or a right to pass to and fro along the highway in a reasonable manner and for a proper purpose , whether carrying a banner or not .
26 Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre .
27 She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " .
28 A pair of swans cruised , with cygnets , and swallows were zipping to and fro above the water .
29 He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it .
30 The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses .
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