Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You 've done more than you thought you 'd ever get away with and so in a sense it 's all gain from here , in fact it 's been all gain for some time and so you ca n't complain and you do n't intend to if fate deserts you now .
3 He is plagued by demons which go back to his childhood and his torment intensifies as a train hurtles him away from or maybe towards a crime .
4 The second exception arises where the challenge to the contested decision or action is collateral , that is , it arises out of and incidentally to a some other legal claim .
5 It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons .
6 Joined on the first of June and is each other initially to and also as a general of what goes on .
7 In the ASE system of nomenclature , the oxidation number of an element in an oxoanion is sometimes used instead of or together with a prefix of suffix .
8 A Bowser portable tank and pump for pumping petrol either into or out of a car .
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