Example sentences of "to and [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bridge had joined the firm as an assistant solicitor and was later made a salaried partner with a view to and shortly before his becoming a full capital ( equity ) partner . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Given the information and access responsible suppliers will go to great lengths to solve a real problem up to and even including commissioning full scale research projects . |
| 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 | Joined on the first of June and is each other initially to and also as a general of what goes on . |
| 6 | That means they are stored in in containers which the public have n't got access to and away from any possibility of er naked flames or any other methods of ignition getting to them . |
| 7 | Stretching up to and away from the patio was a vast lawn , smothered with spring flowers — yellow daffodils and a parade of brilliant hyacinths . |
| 8 | Once more a misogyny produced internally to and largely by hetero/sexual difference is projected on to homosexuality . |
| 9 | CAT Protein Network System should be applied prior to and immediately after a perm service to increase hair strength and maintain condition . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the aftermath of Bermuda , goodwill surged to and fro across the Atlantic . |
| 12 | While he was speaking she got up and began pacing to and fro across the wide office . |
| 13 | He found that he could n't remain seated while she was striding to and fro across the office . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Esther shook her head , oblivious of the stray wisp of hair that fanned to and fro across her forehead ; hair that had once been a soft shade of brown , but which now was streaked iron grey . |
| 18 | They bustled to and fro across the dock and swarmed on and off the ships . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Prostates , bypasses , hip replacements and renal surgery swung to and fro across the table . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She waddled to and fro with her toes pointing in … |
| 23 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 24 | Marcus , putting his hands upon the board at the foot , moved the bed slightly on its casters , moving it gently to and fro with a movement as of one rocking a cradle . |
| 25 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She looked down at the sandal and with one worn finger gently moved the heel to and fro on its fragile shred of skin . |
| 28 | He required seven or eight spinners to keep him busy as he threw his shuttle to and fro on his heavy wooden loom . |
| 29 | When you are told to move the lace carriage more than once ( by a succession of straight arrows ) , you are shaping the stitches on the needles to firm the pattern , in the same way that you slip stitches to and fro on knitting needles before ‘ purling ’ back . |
| 30 | 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 . |