Example sentences of "to [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The events are presented in episodic form , as a continuous narrative tossed antiphonally to and fro between the actresses . |
| 5 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 6 | Richard seems to have played an important part in the peace and truce talks , and as he went to and fro between the armies his father may have begun to wonder just what these exchanges meant . |
| 7 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 8 | Vision moves to and fro between the vessels , setting up a visual and , if one has been long at sea , an emotional tension between them . |
| 9 | Roger Jacobi has described a vivid picture of hunters around Cheddar Gorge using the many shallow access valleys from the Levels to the top of the Mendips as ambush points for animals moving to and fro over the seasons , and it is noticeable how many of the Mesolithic sites located by Joan Taylor and Rebecca Smart are at the top end of shallow valleys in the front of the Mendips and close to former springs . |
| 10 | I endeavoured to believe that much , if not all of what I felt , was due to the bewildering influence of the gloomy furniture in the room — of the dark and tattered draperies , which , tortured into motion by the breath of a rising tempest , swayed fitfully to and fro upon the walls , and rustled uneasily about the decorations of the bed . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |