Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs . |
| 2 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 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 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the rolling circle in a hypocycloid has a radius half the length of the fixed circle , point P simply moves to and fro along a diameter . |
| 8 | For a moment he thought she was going to hit him , and then her face turned crimson , her mouth started to bang to and fro like a door in a gale force wind and a sound came down her nose that suggested she had just swallowed a quart of White ’ s Cream Soda . |
| 9 | Inside the first attic , Léonie had discovered , if you fumbled your way through the dusty darkness to what seemed a cupboard on the far side , you found , within this , a ladder clamped to the wall that led to a trapdoor and thence to a bit of flat roof . |
| 10 | On 17 December ‘ Reynolds ’ and his wife ‘ Anne ’ , with Blake safely hidden away , left Britain on the Dover ferry to Ostend , drove across Belgium to West Germany and thence to a border crossing-point with East Germany where they arrived on 19 December . |
| 11 | Likewise structure , which is what we are aiming at here , does not spring up ready-made , but is developed from interior and exterior motifs into its parts and thence into a whole … |
| 12 | The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city . |
| 13 | Nicandra took the path leading away from pleasure-garden policies , through heavy laurels and on into a grove of hazels patched with sunlight . |
| 14 | on and on and on and on and on as a border , now she thinks that 's about the washing machine ad you know the Ariston washing ad , on and on . |
| 15 | Again in the case of Trieste , Dell'Aqua describes how patients , painters , doctors , nurses and students built a blue horse — the Marco Cavallo — which led a joyful procession of about 6,000 patients through the town , and on to a celebration of the emptying of the first ward , held at a local primary school . |
| 16 | I try to sleep , but can not , and go for a walk along the shore and on to a ridge from where Sør-Fugløya is thrown into relief by the blinding sun . |
| 17 | I walked out of the sea and on to a beach , where there was no sign of any people or houses . |
| 18 | The image in Figure 5.12 of an inlaid Islamic brass ewer is formed by X-rays passing through the ewer and on to a sheet of film beneath it . |
| 19 | They must have walked for at least three miles and eventually came out of the wood and on to a pathway which led to a crossroads . |
| 20 | Turn left past the junction and on to a path . |
| 21 | Jim still carries the scars of his Carry Ons — he fell off the camel he was supposed to be riding and his left arm was badly broken during the making of Doctor , when he had to ride a hospital trolley down a flight of stairs , through a plate-glass window and on to a table . |
| 22 | Oracle Corp and US West Inc duly announced details of their alliance yesterday , saying that they were jointly developing a multimedia information server to enable access to information at any time from any place in any form — via personal computer , facsimile machine or a cellular or conventional telephone — and eventually via a screenphone , an interactive television set or a personal digital assistant . |
| 23 | Hard thinking and research may aid us individually , and eventually as a species , to counter some of these problems . |
| 24 | A little later when local people formed themselves into vigilantees and eventually into a battalion of the UDA , he was asked to take charge of the extensive social work sponsored by it in the district . |
| 25 | They all had their pictures done and eventually over a period of about a year , she actually did a portrait of everybody in the Home . |
| 26 | There was something like a regular cursus honorum : the capable chaplain was provided with endowment in the form of canonries and dignities in this and that cathedral , for which he was expected to perform little or no duty , and eventually with a bishopric . |
| 27 | In its pure form , the Dionysiac impulse leads to apathy and hostility to any political action , and eventually to a total , Buddhistic withdrawal from the public world in pursuit of mystical self-negation . |
| 28 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
| 29 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 30 | It may strike you as unusual but , once mastered , it can be used very quickly and effectively for a variety of purposes : |