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

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1 But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough .
2 Inside the first attic , Léonie had discovered , if you fumbled your way through the dusty darkness to what seemed a cupboard on the far side , you found , within this , a ladder clamped to the wall that led to a trapdoor and thence to a bit of flat roof .
3 On 17 December ‘ Reynolds ’ and his wife ‘ Anne ’ , with Blake safely hidden away , left Britain on the Dover ferry to Ostend , drove across Belgium to West Germany and thence to a border crossing-point with East Germany where they arrived on 19 December .
4 At Trecynon , a suburb on the north-west side of the town , there is an iron bridge built in 1811 to carry products of the Abernant Ironworks on a tramway from the works to the Glamorgan Canal , and thence to the port at Cardiff .
5 There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines .
6 The majority will be settled by agreement , but an appeal process , first to Valuation Tribunals through the Lands Tribunal , and thence to the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords on matters of law , is available .
7 This leads from the neighbourhood of modern Ljubljana ( Roman Emona ) by way of the Pear Tree Pass ( Hrušica ) to the Vipava and thence to the head of the Adriatic at Aquileia near present-day Trieste .
8 Powder systems either have a facility to pressurise the detergent drum , into which water is fed to solubilize the powder which is then fed by air pressure to the dispenser pump , or sachet filled hoppers which are auger fed into a chamber where water is mixed and thence to the delivery pump .
9 An example is the string of demes from Tribe Five , Akamantis , which run Thorikos-Kephale-Prospalta-Sphettos and thence to the city ; the section from Thomkos to Sphettos is along an arterial road , which by Kleisthenes ' dispositions was enclosed first within the coastal , then within the in land trittys of Akamantis .
10 ‘ We shall progress along the Parade and Albion Street , up to Fort House , known as Bleak House , and thence to the pier , ’ he announced grandly , pointing with his Golden Jubilee cane .
11 At the bottom ( north ) end it connects with a tarmac farm road which continues through a level crossing ( point C on map ) which is now open to pedestrian traffic only ( so it 's a very quiet lane ) , and thence to the entrance to Riccarton campus ( point D ) .
12 One of the attractions of the room was that one could climb from the window out onto the roof of the bicycle shed and thence to the ground .
13 Whereas the long-term significance of human activity upon plants and animals and soil characteristics and distributions has provided one research focus , in climatology the emphasis has perhaps been more evident on a spatial scale with the impact of human activity first appreciated at the local scale but then subsequently extended to the meso and thence to the world scale .
14 This eventually led to the establishment of the Phillimore Committee , which issued a fairly modest report in 1974,1R and thence to the Contempt of Court Act 1981 .
15 In particular , it is not difficult to imagine that the oral stage , with its central feature of attachment to the breast , and thereby to the person of the mother , holds rich possibilities for primitive superego-formation , especially if weaning creates a tendency to introject the lost object .
16 Within this context of the nation as a family , the actions of individuals were expected to be based on selfless service to their immediate group , and thereby to the state .
17 The duration of totality at each observing site provides an important clue to the size of the Moon 's shadow on the Earth , and thereby to the size of the Sun at the time of the eclipse .
18 Again in the case of Trieste , Dell'Aqua describes how patients , painters , doctors , nurses and students built a blue horse — the Marco Cavallo — which led a joyful procession of about 6,000 patients through the town , and on to a celebration of the emptying of the first ward , held at a local primary school .
19 I try to sleep , but can not , and go for a walk along the shore and on to a ridge from where Sør-Fugløya is thrown into relief by the blinding sun .
20 I walked out of the sea and on to a beach , where there was no sign of any people or houses .
21 The image in Figure 5.12 of an inlaid Islamic brass ewer is formed by X-rays passing through the ewer and on to a sheet of film beneath it .
22 They must have walked for at least three miles and eventually came out of the wood and on to a pathway which led to a crossroads .
23 Turn left past the junction and on to a path .
24 Jim still carries the scars of his Carry Ons — he fell off the camel he was supposed to be riding and his left arm was badly broken during the making of Doctor , when he had to ride a hospital trolley down a flight of stairs , through a plate-glass window and on to a table .
25 Sometimes I 'd have to go off and strip off to fight straight after a caddying session , off the course , drop the bag and on to the fairground .
26 His body leaped like a salmon , airborne , as he turned and crashed down again , then rolled off the scarp and on to the clearing .
27 She turned her head away , scalding tears coursing down her cheeks and on to the pillow which had absorbed her earlier grief .
28 Corbett muttered curses but followed Selkirk up the ladder and on to the deck of the ship .
29 Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck .
30 I thought that perhaps something came through the air-vent , down the bell-rope and on to the bed .
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