Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Top left : Pattern drawing of ranking worn on the transverse shoulder straps attached to the 1895 ‘ sack coat ’ , and 1898 four-pocket blouse , and latterly on the blue shirt . |
| 2 | Is the Minister aware that the proposals for the expansion and development of the Dalzell works have been pursued for many years more consistently and vigorously by the Labour party than by any other party ? |
| 3 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 4 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 5 | It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 8 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 9 | The windbreak of pine trees which sheltered the buildings on the north side , creaked and groaned in the piercing wind ; the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner . |
| 10 | So much paper passing to and fro in a single day , thought the tall boy . |
| 11 | He swivelled to and fro in the padded chair . |
| 12 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 13 | The resultant economics was to lead directly to the Renaissance , and thence to the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | The L3 then passes in the bloodstream to the lungs and thence to the small intestine via the trachea . |
| 15 | The L1 break into the alveoli , migrate to the trachea and thence to the alimentary tract to be passed in the faeces . |
| 16 | Zeki Validov , one of the most famous Bashkir military leaders , fled to the Urals — to the shock of Moscow — and thence to the armed revolt of the Basmachi in eastern Turkestan . |
| 17 | This necessitated special arrangements with the train traversing the Plas Crug ground frame to the run round loop and thence to the old Platform 3 . |
| 18 | Both are seen as emerging out of a human ‘ need ’ to associate with other humans , which in turn leads to increased production , further increased needs and thence to the social division of labour . |
| 19 | There are too many loopholes allowing poached ivory to be " laundered " into the legal trade and thence onto the open market . |
| 20 | In talks at The Hague on Oct. 4 , chaired by Lord Carrington , agreement appeared to have been reached between Croatia and Serbia on lifting the blockade of army barracks and on including the Serbian minority in Croatia in future talks . |
| 21 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 22 | Since last year 's season of tests , one cyclone , Reva , has swept right across the atoll and on over the nearby Gambier islands . |
| 23 | She watched him ride on , past the lilacs , past the green door and on towards the main gate to the farmyard . |
| 24 | Since the mid 19th century , he has found , Ballinluig and the scattered rural communities of Dalguise , Caputh , Spittalfield and Dunkeld have fought flood in 1837 , 1839 , 1847 , 1868 , 1894 , and on into the present century . |
| 25 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 26 | In the 1880s Glasgow 's Victorian prosperity was approaching its peak , and the noon-tide of Empire was to witness the arrival of electricity , the cable subway and the electric trams , photography , St Andrew 's halls , the Great Exhibition of 1888 , 1901 , and on into the new century , hospitals , bridges , effort and endeavour . |
| 27 | Boys flowed past them and on into the next gallery . |
| 28 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 29 | Yanto walked through the front porch of the pub and on into the flagstoned lobby . |
| 30 | Then the road swung left of a forest of palms , where man-made trenches flanked the road and cradled young trees , and on past a mud-brick cafe , and the village of Sbaa , with its pyramid tower and mosque . |