Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] between [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ryan was jumping to and fro between the room from which the ladder was to be launched and the corridor . |
| 5 | It would not be safe to have you going to and fro between the steerage and our quarters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He ran vigorously to and fro between the two kitchens . |
| 11 | Shortly after the English army 's murderous assault on Berwick , in 1296 , Bothwell fell into English hands and for the remainder of the Wars of Independence the castle passed to and fro between the opposing forces . |