Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters . |
| 32 | Ryan was jumping to and fro between the room from which the ladder was to be launched and the corridor . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | This , he observed , ‘ is accomplished by lowering the head and gently drawing the tips of the antlers to and fro through the herbage . |
| 39 | Taking a long piece of string , she dragged it to and fro through the mud , heaping it up and turning that into men . |
| 40 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 41 | But there will always be a hard core , roaring down a bottomless lane in an A70 pick-up with no piston rings and ninety degrees of play in the steering , white cricket cap pulled down over watering eyes , sheepdog barking its head off as it rushes to and fro in the cargo department . |
| 42 | Ranulf flashed the coroner a dagger glance but Cranston was already rocking to and fro in the saddle , laughing uproariously at his own joke . |
| 43 | Men from each force blundered to and fro in the darkness and El Cid himself was slightly wounded . |
| 44 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 45 | But Millie , her body twisted , her two arms extended , was gripping the woman 's wrists while being tossed to and fro in the struggle , and she , too , was screaming , ‘ You wo n't ! |
| 46 | ‘ They walked to and fro in the twilight ’ |
| 47 | He picked up a kitten by its tail and swung it to and fro in the air , laughing at its cries . |
| 48 | I got into the truck and George sped away along the road , the water slurping heavily to and fro in the tank immediately behind our seats . |
| 49 | As soon as Schmidt settled , she rose again and walked to and fro in the room pecking at her cigarette . |
| 50 | Further along , Simon could see Mr Bishop 's kiosk , abandoned to the elements , its shutters still down , its back door flapping open , banging to and fro in the wind . |
| 51 | An inn sign swung to and fro in the wind . |
| 52 | So I asked him what he was up to and he said he was going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it , and then he pushed th " trolley in , and I went in after , and the mother began her howling and shrieking , and Will said , " Well , I 'll walk off and leave you to it . " |
| 53 | Matthew Boulton lived close to his works at Soho ; but his son bought the estate and country house of Great Tew in Oxfordshire and went to and fro by the coach which is still preserved in the stables there . |
| 54 | Leaning back so that the chair creaked alarmingly , he held her watch up , dangling it to and fro by the strap , his expression neutral . |
| 55 | No more safe trotting to and fro from the convent . |
| 56 | I ran to and fro from the kitchen for some time with saucepans and kettles of boiling water . |
| 57 | They ferried plates to and fro from the kitchen , where Rose and Victorine supervised what was to come next . |
| 58 | Strudwick , still desperately trying to put rugby league on the map in the capital , said : ‘ It 's been hectic this week , having to dash to and fro from the training ground to the hospital . |
| 59 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 60 | Again it see-sawed to and fro throughout the half erm last couple of minutes Banbury went twice when Peter Smith fired in a shot from twenty yards which Ricky Harding in the Almondsbury goal held very comfortably , and erm Dave Bristow again went close . |