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 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 8 | A team functioning with all its different required ministry components in place , resources set up — ie Care Trust families , housegroups that sense God 's call , liaising with statutory organisations — Social Services , Social Security , HIV and AIDS agencies , Housing Department , Drug Dependency units — Police communication and legal systems in place , doctors , a formal prison link … and the list goes on and on as you can imagine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Before anyone could say a word he had turned on his heel and strode off looking to left and right as he went . |
| 11 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And so as I understand it that 's the situation |
| 17 | He was black , and perhaps as I was in trousers , he thought I might have known Sir Richard Whittington . |
| 18 | Expressionless , their ill-fitting jackboots thumping up and down as they marched , the soldiers approached the lone kilted figure . |
| 19 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 20 | Any morning you could see them tearing through the tree-tops , chasing each other up and down as they searched for the red berries that they loved . |
| 21 | His shaven eyebrows worked themselves up and down as he shouted . |
| 22 | Gemayel 's foot tapped up and down as he warmed to his subject , his large oak desk shaking slightly with the vibration . |
| 23 | His large adam 's apple moved up and down as he swallowed his nerves . |
| 24 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 25 | Eventually he 'd give up and walk away , his grey beard moving up and down as he mumbled to himself , the words spilling out of his almost toothless mouth . |
| 26 | He always laughed noiselessly , his jaw snapping up and down as he took in great gulps of air . |
| 27 | He was secure enough to turn his back , to show me the two foul moons of his backside , heaving up and down as he ground her into the floor . |
| 28 | His eyebrows flicker up and down as he speaks , he reminds her of an actor she used to know . |
| 29 | The severe turbulence , with the jet bucking up and down as it encountered windshear , had Myeloski wishing he was sitting in the back . |
| 30 | It will still bob up and down as it hits the successive wavefronts . |