Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If the rolling circle in a hypocycloid has a radius half the length of the fixed circle , point P simply moves to and fro along a diameter . |
| 32 | Its larvae bore voraciously to and fro along the grain of the wood , generally under a thin , intact surface . |
| 33 | There is no legal right to protect or demonstrate — merely a right for the present to say what one likes provided that it is lawful whether by way of ‘ protest ’ or otherwise ; or a right to pass to and fro along the highway in a reasonable manner and for a proper purpose , whether carrying a banner or not . |
| 34 | Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across . |
| 35 | She stood up and began pacing restlessly to and fro along the balcony . |
| 36 | Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre . |
| 37 | A pair of swans cruised , with cygnets , and swallows were zipping to and fro above the water . |
| 38 | She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " . |
| 39 | He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it . |
| 40 | The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses . |
| 41 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 42 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 43 | Ryan was jumping to and fro between the room from which the ladder was to be launched and the corridor . |
| 44 | It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters . |
| 45 | A commission of magistrates and theologians from the University of Louvain was appointed to examine him in a long-drawn-out process in which translations of his heretical works were prepared by Philips ; written charges and rebuttals in Latin passed to and fro between the Commission and Tyndale , followed by oral examinations . |
| 46 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 47 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 48 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 49 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 50 | Shortly after the English army 's murderous assault on Berwick , in 1296 , Bothwell fell into English hands and for the remainder of the Wars of Independence the castle passed to and fro between the opposing forces . |
| 51 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 52 | Roger Jacobi has described a vivid picture of hunters around Cheddar Gorge using the many shallow access valleys from the Levels to the top of the Mendips as ambush points for animals moving to and fro over the seasons , and it is noticeable how many of the Mesolithic sites located by Joan Taylor and Rebecca Smart are at the top end of shallow valleys in the front of the Mendips and close to former springs . |
| 53 | The attack on the village along the road was still going on , wounded and dead Commandos were being placed against the walls of the cobbled farmyard , waiting their turn as the jeeps ferried to and fro through the village . |
| 54 | This , he observed , ‘ is accomplished by lowering the head and gently drawing the tips of the antlers to and fro through the herbage . |
| 55 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 56 | On Tuesday night , panicky government whips scurried to and fro through the usually dignified members ' lobby , just outside the chamber , like mad hares . |
| 57 | Taking a long piece of string , she dragged it to and fro through the mud , heaping it up and turning that into men . |
| 58 | It not only covered ships passing to and fro through the Strait , but also included reports of Argentine air strikes , naval activity , including the sinking of the Belgrano , and even references to the British helicopter that had landed on the coast of the Magellan Strait almost opposite Punta Arenas , and had been destroyed by its pilot . |
| 59 | I ran to and fro from the kitchen for some time with saucepans and kettles of boiling water . |
| 60 | The reading knob must be slid to and fro from the far ends of the slot . |