Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the aftermath of Bermuda , goodwill surged to and fro across the Atlantic . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses . |
| 38 | Ryan was jumping to and fro between the room from which the ladder was to be launched and the corridor . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | This , he observed , ‘ is accomplished by lowering the head and gently drawing the tips of the antlers to and fro through the herbage . |
| 47 | Taking a long piece of string , she dragged it to and fro through the mud , heaping it up and turning that into men . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Ranulf flashed the coroner a dagger glance but Cranston was already rocking to and fro in the saddle , laughing uproariously at his own joke . |
| 50 | Men from each force blundered to and fro in the darkness and El Cid himself was slightly wounded . |
| 51 | ‘ 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 . |
| 52 | 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 ! |
| 53 | ‘ They walked to and fro in the twilight ’ |
| 54 | He picked up a kitten by its tail and swung it to and fro in the air , laughing at its cries . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | As soon as Schmidt settled , she rose again and walked to and fro in the room pecking at her cigarette . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | An inn sign swung to and fro in the wind . |
| 59 | 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 . " |
| 60 | 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 . |