Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ferried plates to and fro from the kitchen , where Rose and Victorine supervised what was to come next . |
| 2 | Similarly for ‘ punchball ’ , the predominant way of signing it was threefold : shape ( ball on a stick ) , movement ( springs to and fro on a pivot ) and how a person interacts with it ( hands punching alternately ) ; these three are salient features . |
| 3 | This , he observed , ‘ is accomplished by lowering the head and gently drawing the tips of the antlers to and fro through the herbage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ross actually said the words out loud , even as he took the cross-hairs to and fro over the scene by the lakeside . |
| 6 | Incidentally , this picture of the working of Ashington suggests all sorts of local routes to and fro across the parish in performing these various activities . |