Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] to and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But here I was stuck back on the dole with a Fostex 250 , a guitar , a microphone and a drum machine , so I worked out a way of getting up to about eleven tracks on the Portastudio by constantly bouncing to and fro . |
| 2 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
| 3 | Did your husband , or did he not , complain that the houseboat Grace , apart from being damp , needed extensive repairs , and that it was difficult if not impossible for you to resume any meaningful sexual relationship when your cabin acted as a kind of passageway with your daughters constantly going to and fro to gain access to the hatch , and a succession of persons , including the milkman , trampling overhead ? |
| 4 | and erm but erm even so getting to and from the bus was a bit of a problem , unfortunately I 've never had erm been one of these people who have got the nerve to erm go about a great deal by themselves and erm being up in London you know , immediately before the war I had erm , it was n't very easy getting about so erm and erm I was n't very |
| 5 | Cindy began to cry again and for a while the two of them sat in silence , gently swinging to and fro . |
| 6 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 7 | Ranulf flashed the coroner a dagger glance but Cranston was already rocking to and fro in the saddle , laughing uproariously at his own joke . |
| 8 | Through her interactions with children in response to their work , the teacher also models processes of actively listening to and responding to ideas , questioning , exploring and sharing which the children will then be able to use for themselves . |