Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] [prep] the " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Stretching up to and away from the patio was a vast lawn , smothered with spring flowers — yellow daffodils and a parade of brilliant hyacinths .
6 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 .
7 In the aftermath of Bermuda , goodwill surged to and fro across the Atlantic .
8 While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office .
9 He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office .
10 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 .
11 Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook .
12 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 .
13 They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships .
14 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 .
15 Prostates , bypasses , hip replacements and renal surgery swung to and fro across the table .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Its larvae bore voraciously to and fro along the grain of the wood , generally under a thin , intact surface .
22 There is no legal right to protect or demonstrate — merely a right for the present to say what one likes provided that it is lawful whether by way of ‘ protest ’ or otherwise ; or a right to pass to and fro along the highway in a reasonable manner and for a proper purpose , whether carrying a banner or not .
23 Most obvious were the southern giant petrels : huge , dark brown birds , some with paler heads , and resembling an outsize fulmar , they glide ceaselessly to and fro along the waterfront on wings which can be up to two metres across .
24 She stood up and began pacing restlessly to and fro along the balcony .
25 Intended as a place where DEA and CIA agents could meet unobserved with informants and clients , as a message drop for CIA arms dealers supplying Iraq and the Afghan rebels , as a waiting room for DEA CIs and couriers from Lebanon , and as a transit point , not just for heroin , but for cash , documents and bootleg computer software moving to and fro along the Beirut — Nicosia — US pipeline , Eurame , as run by El-Jorr , was more like a low-life social club than a secret intelligence centre .
26 A pair of swans cruised , with cygnets , and swallows were zipping to and fro above the water .
27 She added that the effect had been enhanced by Miss Minoprio 's " curious mannerism of waving the club to and fro above the ball instead of addressing it in the conventional manner " .
28 He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it .
29 The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses .
30 No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation .
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