Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where secondhand goods were sold regularly under standard terms , the correct approach would be to include a provision equivalent to Precedent 4 in the set , either as an alternative to or instead of the standard clauses applying to the quality standards for new goods . |
| 2 | There are now available drugs which , injected prior to or just after a learning trial , improve retention of the memory ( that is , increase the ‘ savings ’ as defined in Chapter 5 ) in animals tested hours or days subsequently . |
| 3 | Next in the expanding network is Lenin Strasse with assorted communist theoreticians and luminaries awarded a street closer to or further from the centre , depending on how high their star stood at the time . |
| 4 | Although the SMPAs last for 3–4 hours and move parallel to and ahead of the front , a theoretical explanation for the size of SMPAs is still required . |
| 5 | This quarter of the town appears to have contained buildings of quality which ran right up to and even over the defences of the late second century . |
| 6 | Joined on the first of June and is each other initially to and also as a general of what goes on . |
| 7 | Stretching up to and away from the patio was a vast lawn , smothered with spring flowers — yellow daffodils and a parade of brilliant hyacinths . |
| 8 | CAT Protein Network System should be applied prior to and immediately after a perm service to increase hair strength and maintain condition . |
| 9 | Prior to and immediately after the operation , the weapon would be holstered erm and secured by means of a strap across er the hammer of the weapon . |
| 10 | In the aftermath of Bermuda , goodwill surged to and fro across the Atlantic . |
| 11 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 12 | He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office . |
| 13 | The wind seemed to drive all ways at once , so that whichever way they turned , as they struggled to and fro across the yard , and from building to building , the snow was always directly into their faces . |
| 14 | Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook . |
| 15 | Wallis never forgot how Minton , whilst painting this portrait , skipped to and fro across the floorboards at Shaftesbury Villas ‘ like some lean fencer with his long brush stabbing at the canvas ’ , all the while throwing out the liveliest sallies . |
| 16 | They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships . |
| 17 | In the morning I went ashore with the captain in a bumboat , passing a variety of small craft that plied to and fro across the straits . |
| 18 | Prostates , bypasses , hip replacements and renal surgery swung to and fro across the table . |
| 19 | Incidentally , this picture of the working of Ashington suggests all sorts of local routes to and fro across the parish in performing these various activities . |
| 20 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Similarly for ‘ punchball ’ , the predominant way of signing it was threefold : shape ( ball on a stick ) , movement ( springs to and fro on a pivot ) and how a person interacts with it ( hands punching alternately ) ; these three are salient features . |
| 25 | While they waited , Lissa made hot drinks , then stood apart and listened as Rourke spoke quietly with the woman , who still rocked slowly to and fro on the settee . |
| 26 | It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons . |
| 27 | Arms flick to and fro as the Winter Fairy and the Stars of Ashton 's Cinderella give the illusion of twinkling lights in the frosty air . |
| 28 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 29 | I remember black faced miners and not so black faced shipyard workers passing to and fro to the nearby yards or the ‘ G ’ pit at the end of the street . |
| 30 | Very occasionally , on our walks , Grandma would tell me things about Wales : about the great cart-horses who died of heart trouble from toiling to and fro up the steep cliff road all their lives ; and how , as a child , she had walked to church along the sands . |