Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] and [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brief was to design an item of cutlery with and not for a disabled student . |
| 2 | Barns were supposed to have hay in them — they did in the movies — where the hero could hide while the baddies , with a total disregard for blood poisoning or spread HIV , jabbed a pitchfork in and out like a demented barman trying to get the last maraschino out of the bottle . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope you do n't intend to bring him something every time you see him , ’ she said , returning to the terrace to find the child energetically shunting toy cars in and out of a smartly painted wooden garage . |
| 4 | One day Judge Raymond Dean was reminding us of the perils of ignoring men 's bestial nature-— ‘ Men ca n't turn their emotions on and off like a tap as some women can ’ ; the next , Prince Edward was vehemently denying his alleged homosexuality by expressing outrage that such an insult should be levelled at him ; meanwhile , on TV the Audi driver screeched to a halt at the hospital where — with toddler in arms — he managed narrowly to miss his second child 's birth , and Good Housekeeping boasted a curious advert showing New Man ( Audi safely in the garage ? ) in boxer shorts , cradling new baby , sitting on a German washing machine . |
| 5 | ‘ You ca n't just switch your emotions on and off like a light-switch . ’ |
| 6 | The electricity industry has an extra desire : to switch consumers ' equipment on and off from a central point . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When multi-track sound mixing is being carried out it is necessary to cue the various tracks in and out to a precisely laid-down programme , a task which is made much easier by reference to a ‘ dope-sheet ’ . |
| 9 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 10 | As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ . |
| 11 | 4.15 In Povey v Governors of Rydal School [ 1970 ] 1 All ER 841 the plaintiff was awarded £8,400 to cover the cost of renewing over a period of 25 years the special hydraulic lifting appliance required to lift his wheel-chair in and out of a motor car . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a lot to thank Nigel Mansell for and obviously as an Englishman I know what sort of pressures there will be on me . |
| 13 | As the sampling proceeds , therefore , a continual shuffling of proposed sample members into and out of an auxiliary subfile is required , a procedure ideally suited to the computer . |
| 14 | For example , you could slide the leading foot forwards and outwards and then throw your body-weight forwards , swinging the rear leg in and forwards in a shallow U-shaped movement . |
| 15 | They are structured in such a way that while we feel our way visually into the space suggested by the subject our eyes are simultaneously being run up the picture by short thrusts in and out of a limited pictorial depth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Partnerships would be fed with , and themselves would feed , to and fro , data , experience and insights into and out of a web of reliable intelligence . |
| 19 | Secondly , pathways do not have to weave their way in and out of a single tree . |