Example sentences of "and [adv] to [noun sg] and " in BNC.

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1 In this case I also wanted to get the cut edges of the neckband tidied up as soon as possible — remember this particular garment has been ferried to and fro to class and back .
2 But where the political and social values of a country redefine the function of a school , as they have done in Tanzania , or , as with the growth of universal primary education , it becomes more obvious that the school is not mainly an escape route out of the village and on to secondary and higher education , so the separateness may become less pronounced and the desire for integration more genuine .
3 But once established , these lines underwent predictable developments towards increasing specialization — and eventually to overspecialization and extinction .
4 With anti-lock as standard , they respond smoothly and effectively to instruction and show no signs of fade during repeated hard stopping .
5 I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling .
6 The layout also reflects the sequence of scientific archaeology from one lab to the next from sorting and cleaning , to cold storage , rough sectioning and then thin sectioning and fine polishing , and finally to analysis and interpretation .
7 Anyway , I got up , and went about my chores , feeding the cats and brewing tea for the rest of the still-slumbering inhabitants of my humble home in order to get them up and out to school and work , and I was thinking to myself as the kettle boiled that here was the start of yet another ordinary damned day , when the post clanked and slithered through the letter box .
8 If everyone ( or at least those who can mould opinion and wield sanctions ) implicitly agrees that it is weak to get upset , and a sign of personal incompetence to make mistakes , then openness entails real risks to staffroom status and even to promotion and other career prospects .
9 Sufficient time needs to be given to listening to the answer and then to prayer and ministry to meet the needs another member has .
10 Inland the machair grades into mesotrophic grassland and then to fen and swamp communities .
11 But by the 26th , he was in ward in Dalkeith , and during the next two months was moved from there to Seton , and then to Blackness and St Andrews before finally being released on lo April .
12 From the growing disillusionment of the Spanish experience in 1937 , Nizan was led inexorably to incredulity and disbelief during the Munich crisis of September 1938 , and ultimately to bewilderment and total despair following the Nazi-Soviet pact and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 .
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