Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 2 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Heavy footsteps crossed the ceiling from corner to corner , striding back and forth , to and fro in a familiar monotonous pattern . |
| 5 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 6 | The windbreak of pine trees which sheltered the buildings on the north side , creaked and groaned in the piercing wind ; the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner . |
| 7 | So much paper passing to and fro in a single day , thought the tall boy . |
| 8 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 9 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 10 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 11 | Then the road swung left of a forest of palms , where man-made trenches flanked the road and cradled young trees , and on past a mud-brick cafe , and the village of Sbaa , with its pyramid tower and mosque . |
| 12 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 13 | Dexter let his eyes wander over the crates on the floor , brimming with files and books , and on to a dusty azalea on the window-sill for which he sensed a twinge of sadness . |
| 14 | Without waiting to be shown , she walked through the primitive kitchen and on to a small balcony perched perilously above the red-tiled roofs of the houses below . |
| 15 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 16 | Nonetheless he ordered the San Antonio and the Concepción into the headwaters of the bay — only to be horrified when he saw them being swept by unsuspected currents and winds into a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift , and on to a wicked-looking spur of black rock . |
| 17 | He directs Rainbow into a side road , and on to a semicircular driveway before a handsome villa — probably late Regency , perfect of its kind . |
| 18 | And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away . |
| 19 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 20 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 21 | As the majority seem to have been charges on benefices , the two enjoyed by the rector of Marsh Gibbon were additional to his living and presumably from a different source . |
| 22 | A commitment ideologically and professionally to a holistic assessment of need and risk , rather than the assessment of eligibility for service , is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for effective assessment practice . |
| 23 | ‘ I gather though that she 's not exactly a woman without a history — I daresay Aunt exaggerates — and rather at a loose end at present — and . ’ |
| 24 | But occasionally , and forgiveably in a live commentary that may last only seconds , his tongue has played tricks . |
| 25 | Statistical returns have played a vital role in the ability to present the activities of the service , nationally and locally in a simple understandable format . |
| 26 | Glendenen , who also hit a century against Glamorgan in the NatWest Trophy , drove straight and powerfully on a slow wicket and he and Parker hit seven fours apiece . |
| 27 | This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university . |
| 28 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 29 | Water voles are very shortsighted and so with a little care they can be easily observed . |
| 30 | Rigid solids are much harder to get hold of in tension and so for a long time such testing as was done was confined to compression and bending . |