Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters went to and fro from Wawne to Rome with no result , until eventually the Pope sent an indignant letter ordering the Wawne clergy to stop the practice or risk punishment . |
| 2 | We were broke , so I accepted , and Dana took me on his bike to and fro from Bath to Corsham throughout the next six weeks . |
| 3 | To and fro from Sydney to Parramatta he devoted himself to the spiritual and physical welfare of the convicts . |
| 4 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 5 | A line to connect Port Augusta to Darwin and thence by sea to India and the rest of Asia was begun in the 1920s but got no further than Alice Springs , reached in 1929 . |
| 6 | From Constanza I returned to England , travelling third class across Europe , by train to Bucharest and Budapest , by boat up the Danube to Vienna , and thence by train to Prague , Berlin and Ostend . |
| 7 | He aimed at fifteen miles a day , and they would march down the southern flanks of the Pentland Hills , to Biggar and Broughton and thence by Tweedsmuir to Moffat , at the head of Annandale , some sixty miles . |
| 8 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 9 | It is near this point that the Pennine Way crosses Swaledale from Tan Hill over the bleak mass of Stonesdale Moor , falling down into Keld and on by Thwaite to Shunner Fell . |
| 10 | With local , with in-house teams it means that we are protected from that ever happening , and I hope that our in-house teams will continue to go on and on from strength to strength , valuable resource to the county council . |
| 11 | From the producers ' point of view , it is the single most sought after ‘ grape variety ’ in the world , and right from Britain to Chile and New Zealand ( and even India ! ) more and more vineyards are being planted with it in preference to any other . |
| 12 | Over one hundred of the works known to have passed through his hands will be shown , many now in private collections and rarely on view to the public . |
| 13 | Suffice it to say here that the word ‘ feudal ’ is used frequently and loosely in relation to Japan , and this use has been based either on the existence in Japan of certain features associated with European feudalism , such as a military code of honour , or on a specific interpretation of the relations of production in Japanese society before the late nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Since it believes in minimum meddling in industry , there is less need for detailed disaggregated figures , and so for figures to be collected by the departments where policy is made . |
| 15 | The relevant factors will vary from company to company , from SBU to SBU , and perhaps from investment to investment , so they must be determined by reference to specifically relevant competitive-strengths criteria . |
| 16 | Indeed , such an observation is by no means confined to the service sectors discussed here , and is a result of service policy pressures much wider than ( and perhaps in opposition to ) concerns about the provision of high quality community support . |
| 17 | One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other . |
| 18 | The tour travelled up the west coast to Oban , round the far north and down through Inverness to Aberdeen and Edinburgh , finishing up in Dumfries . |
| 19 | And it 's Zack who gets the crowd bouncing up and down in time to his dazzling raps . |
| 20 | His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey , moved up and down in time to the music . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 've got anything to say , ’ he said , and closed his eyes , his foot jogging up and down in time to the beat of the dance band on the gramophone . |
| 22 | In the Wolverton of 1942 there was no library , no café , no bookshop , no cinema , and thus an unsophisticated Scots girl who would never at home have entered a public house often found herself of an evening among Bletchley friends in The Galleon , an inn overlooking the Grand Junction Canal at Old Wolverton , where the brightly-painted barges plied up and down from London to Manchester , and noting how different was the English pub from the uncouth male preserve that was its Scottish counterpart . |
| 23 | The trains , running up and down from London to Stanmore and back , could only be seen through the foliage as a series of silver flashes , but their singing rattle made a constant background music . |
| 24 | Knead comfortably up and down from side to side , then knead the sides of the waist . |
| 25 | Because of this factor it is relatively expensive and little seen , and only of use to regular , frequent business users who would find themselves in difficulties without the transportation . |
| 26 | And he says his days of tripping the light fantastic on the dance floor are well and truely over thanks to the injury . |
| 27 | Pages are written closely and amorphously from side to side and from top to bottom . |
| 28 | Invalidity would be the result of non-conformity to statutory purposes and not of non-conformity to the common law . |
| 29 | By the 1880s Blue Books almost always originated from the government and not in response to parliamentary demands . |
| 30 | If the wavecut platform extends much further seawards than the projection of the degraded cliff it seems very likely that much of the platform was cut in the past at the foot of the cliff which has now become degraded and not in relation to the present active section at the bottom of the cliff , the state of affairs shown in Fig. 8.13 . |