Example sentences of "and [adv] with [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate .
3 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 .
4 It is n't intended to go anywhere , just fill the time of day … on and on and on with no point or purpose other than to fill the time , like the rocking of a chair . ’
5 They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back :
6 But enough of history and on with the present — Windows in particular .
7 Ah well , as far as the pyjama-game players are concerned it 's a case of : ‘ On with the motley and on with the motley ! ’
8 At the first change over it 's off with the shoes and on with the safety helmet .
9 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 .
10 like that and eventually with the help of my mum I could join sentences together to make a real piece of writing .
11 The client must have confidence in the conveyancer and the conveyancer must maintain that confidence by undertaking each step in each transaction competently and carefully , and above all , must understand at all times the importance of communicating regularly and effectively with a client .
12 It is mentioned here because encounters with such forms of suffering may distress practitioners so much as to block off their own capacity to deal sensitively and effectively with the people concerned .
13 On Sept. 2 the government announced a three-stage programme to remove the vestiges of communist control and integrate Estonia politically and economically with the rest of Europe .
14 She heard it before she saw it , murmuring louder and louder with the squeals of gulls cutting shrilly across the regular soft booming of the waves .
15 She swept him off his feet as the forward momentum of her lunge carried her upright , shedding Perks left and right with a shake of her shoulders .
16 And suddenly with the woman 's cheese plant tickling his ear he thought of Lee up in Jubilee Wood , running down the ride howling .
17 Eight-year-olds were beginning to acknowledge the distinction , in that when they used the causal connectives in the deductive mode they appropriately followed because with evidence and so with a conclusion .
18 It has been present from the beginning as a primitive rhythm , that element associated with the ‘ auditory imagination ’ of poetry , and so with the savage in the jungle and his gods , ‘ His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom …
19 And so with the help of these , they just managed to do a bit of slate , but if them had not gone back , I thinks this this strike would have turned the other way .
20 Burma had been starved of books and so with the assistance of W. Lockett , who had worked with J.S. Furnivall in the pre-war bookshop , I secured the co-operation of the SPCK in a plan for a general bookshop .
21 And he seemed sincere enough now , his piece of paper held ready in his hands , and so with the safety of the newsdesk between them she reached across and took it .
22 He is almost certainly to be identified with the Osbald of Alcuin 's letter to Aethelred and perhaps with the Osbald who burnt a ‘ patrician ’ of King Aelfwald in 780 .
23 And what we used to do to begin with the canal used to dip in the middle , you know there was bike wheels and dead cats and everything in it , and it used to dip and , and there was a sludge and , and the barges used to go up and down with a horse pulling them , and in the middle there was a , so you could n't bottom it in the middle , so when I learnt to swim I used to dive off this ledge and go under the water so far and I , I could reach the bottom when I got to the other side .
24 He got up and down with a pitch to a yard , and holed from ten feet at the fifteenth and eighteenth to make the top 20 .
25 We walk up the ramp and stand huddled and silent , bobbing up and down with the swell .
26 The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying .
27 She did n't scream ; she moaned and cried with pain , pulling at the bedclothes , jerking her swollen body up and down with the contractions .
28 A disguised Jacobite glass with ‘ God bless Prince Charlie and down with the Rump ’ engraved under the rim is estimated at £3–5,000 ( $5,500–9,000 ) .
29 And it is not easy to discover any more covert or sophisticated moral view of the characters and the events of the poem : it does not dwell in any suggestive way on the irremediable carnality of human desires , and only with a degree of distortion and uncalled for determination could we assert that the poem is significantly antifeminist or anticlerical .
30 The coalition facilitated a realignment from the two-party Liberal-Unionist contest in 1914 to the Labour-Conservative battles of the late 1920s ; only with the triumph of coalition in 1916 did the old politics die , and only with the destruction of coalitionism in 1924 could the new politics be born .
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