Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | No more safe trotting to and fro from the convent . |
| 6 | Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook . |