Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since school , which was n't long ago , he 'd worked as a butcher , ‘ squeezed a heart in a sink and got blood all over - sickened me ’ , and latterly as a — guess it — hairdresser . |
| 2 | I qualified in 1979 and have worked as a social worker and latterly as a team manager in various London boroughs . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They to and fro to a chirping tap |
| 5 | The gangplank that linked the slipway to the boat shifted to and fro with a grating sound . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was arranged that the source could be driven slowly to and fro at a low velocity using a transducer ; this motion produced a small Doppler shift in the frequency and energy of the emitted photons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 13 | Heavy footsteps crossed the ceiling from corner to corner , striding back and forth , to and fro in a familiar monotonous pattern . |
| 14 | The windbreak of pine trees which sheltered the buildings on the north side , creaked and groaned in the piercing wind ; the treetops whipped to and fro in a frightening manner . |
| 15 | So much paper passing to and fro in a single day , thought the tall boy . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | This road can be picked up just outside Kenilworth , whence it runs in a south-easterly direction through Offchurch across country to Southam , and thence through an almost uninhabited landscape towards the North-amptonshire uplands . |
| 23 | These views were often repetitive and mostly of a ‘ snapshot ’ simplicity . |
| 24 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 25 | The drive to Templeton , her Old Westbury , Long Island mansion , sweeps through a verdant meadow dotted with horse jumps , past an avenue of linden trees ( planted by her uncle-in-law J.S. Phipps in 1906 ) , and on towards a spectacular ‘ moon gate ’ trellisage — Mrs Guest 's own invention — which frames in its circled centre a vista of kitchen gardens , cutting gardens , flamboyant topiary , and the house itself , build of old weathered brick and weather- board in the Twenties Wiltshire Queen Anne vernacular . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nicandra took the path leading away from pleasure-garden policies , through heavy laurels and on into a grove of hazels patched with sunlight . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then the road swung left of a forest of palms , where man-made trenches flanked the road and cradled young trees , and on past a mud-brick cafe , and the village of Sbaa , with its pyramid tower and mosque . |
| 30 | 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 . |