Example sentences of "and [adv] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 2 | Gaining the tar-sweated hill with my mother 's lean legs pumping swiftly , the willowy sight of streaky high dunes on the horizon awaited us , waving to and fro as they did , sheltering an occasional beige box of a house , a modern cube . |
| 3 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 4 | A spinner with a great ( or walking ) wheel could perhaps work here , space being required for the spinner to walk to and fro as she worked , though the height of the canopy would be a determining factor . |
| 5 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 6 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 7 | The night before , and through the morning into the afternoon , the Wolverines had rampaged from level to level , always moving as quickly and confusingly as they could . |
| 8 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 9 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 10 | His arm waggled , as if he were groping for something , and then his hand appeared as softly and suddenly as it had vanished : holding the fifth ball . |
| 11 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 12 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 13 | And so as I grew up er they knew me and I knew them and I was to need one or two later on , for various reasons , but er you could n't see it at the time . |
| 14 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 15 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 16 | I finished the song and only as I left the stage did I realise I had wet myself with fear . |
| 17 | The temptation must be resisted as firmly and valiantly as I have resisted the other , more obvious , more sensual lures and snares . |
| 18 | Lara , sweeping frequently , made a bright 50 , then Richardson — booed loud and long as he came in for his supposed anti Jamaican selections and his team 's poor World Cup performances — made 30 of a stand of 106 with Simmons . |
| 19 | Check that you have the positioning right and encourage your baby to feed for as often and long as he wants to stimulate the flow . |
| 20 | Lancaster 's voice had suddenly become animated and loud as he recalled the sting of his betrayal . |
| 21 | Maybe I says it as should n't , but they 're not a pair I like , educated and all as they may be . |
| 22 | This was an ingenious wheelchair attached to the front of a bicycle ; and lastly as I left , I had a word with Stefan Sielaff from Germany , who had designed a fantastic three-wheeled single seater vehicle in fibreglass , that was catching everyone 's eye ! |
| 23 | Within any major class characterized on the basis of its gating properties subclasses can be defined according to their ionic selectivity , but also according to their er pharmacological properties , and especially as we 'll see in a second , according to their single channel conductance . |
| 24 | And especially as you say to be humorous . |
| 25 | She sat , simply and naturally as she had done before . |
| 26 | Similarly , the Andante ‘ on an old German Minnelied ’ does not move along as freely and naturally as it should and so loses something of its song quality . |
| 27 | Moving as quietly and gently as she could to avoid scaring the budgie away , Penny climbed up on to the fence and then , by way of various branches , up the tree . |
| 28 | He was swearing steadily and obscenely as he did so , realising that the windscreen damage inflicted by the near miss would make it well-nigh impossible for him to engage in a high speed chase now . |
| 29 | And anyway as I said , I 'm not Irish . ’ |
| 30 | But though Catherine was clearly disappointed by its failure to produce a new code of laws as quickly and easily as she had hoped , and perhaps not very reluctant to end its activities , there is no doubt of the sincerity of her motives in calling it . |