Example sentences of "[prep] and [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie , who had never learned such useful arts from either of the women who had brought her up , had to be shown what was required , but soon the smooth rhythm of one woman winding and the other co-operating by swinging her hands in and out as the thread unwound , pleased and comforted her . |
| 2 | The Fourth Fairy is a songbird bringing the gift of Language and flutters to and fro as she sings . |
| 3 | In the fifth hour of play , Karpov was reduced to shuffling his king to and fro as Short steadily improved his position . |
| 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 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 7 | Dowd 's head thrashed to and fro as this indignity was visited upon him , only once raising his gaze to stare accusingly at Godolphin , who was too busy about this undoing to return the look . |
| 8 | When a white bar is moved to and fro as shown to the left , the neuron responds only when it is nearly vertical , and only for one direction of movement ( from Hubel 1988 : see Further Reading ) . |
| 9 | He glanced to and fro as he walked back across the road , but no-one was there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This triangle is established by finding the intersection B of circles centred on O and A with radii in the same proportion to and respectively as OA is to . |