Example sentences of "[noun] to [conj] fro [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | They ferried plates to and fro from the kitchen , where Rose and Victorine supervised what was to come next . |
| 3 | Similarly for ‘ punchball ’ , the predominant way of signing it was threefold : shape ( ball on a stick ) , movement ( springs to and fro on a pivot ) and how a person interacts with it ( hands punching alternately ) ; these three are salient features . |
| 4 | This , he observed , ‘ is accomplished by lowering the head and gently drawing the tips of the antlers to and fro through the herbage . |
| 5 | You must realise that the King not only fell from a great height but the sea pounded his body to and fro against the rocks . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 11 | No more safe trotting to and fro from the convent . |
| 12 | Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook . |