Example sentences of "[prep] [coord] [adv] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ASE system of nomenclature , the oxidation number of an element in an oxoanion is sometimes used instead of or together with a prefix of suffix . |
| 2 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 5 | 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 . |