Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] and [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 2 | She switches them on and off like the electric light . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 4 | ( iii ) Mechanically remove any follicular cells that remain attached to the eggs by pipetting them in and out of a narrow bore micropipette . |
| 5 | Sarah ( 4.9 ) and Donna ( 3.11 ) put them in and out of the wheelbarrow . |
| 6 | Another nice touch is that you can swop from one PCMCIA card to another by simply sliding them in and out of the slot . |
| 7 | Conditions are jolly hot there , and they 're going to have to get used to that quite quickly , the big thing is to get them through and out into the desert as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ You know , dear , we love to have you in and out of the house , but sometimes I think you hang around Nick too much . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll have you up and about in no time . ’ |
| 10 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 11 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 12 | They must then choose their wave again to carry them out and up with the swell so they can seize the ropes dangling from the platform . |
| 13 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 14 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've seen him on and off over the years . ’ |
| 16 | His slippery feet could take him in and out of a West End emporium in two shakes of a fox 's tail , but what he collected on his way through was as much as six pairs of hands could manage . |
| 17 | Holmes 's aide Dick Lovell said : ‘ We whisked him in and out under the cover of darkness . ’ |
| 18 | They want him in and out within a month at the very outside . |
| 19 | Carole Ann Ford had just begun a crossing from one side to the other when , without warning , the supports gave way , pitching her over and down to a very rough landing at the foot of ‘ the cliff ’ . |
| 20 | He drove her to the very edge of ecstasy and then , as the quivering tide of sensation gathered momentum , he tipped her over and down into the fiery vortex . |
| 21 | Arlene looked her up and down with a practised eye . |
| 22 | I looked round to find Karen standing in the centre of a group of businessmen who were eyeing her up and down in a blatantly sexual way . |
| 23 | He looked her up and down in a manner that was no longer respectful . |
| 24 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 25 | Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence . |
| 26 | Tammuz was still looking him up and down like a roving automatic eye . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'll entertain a whole load of people watching while we 're out on location but he can turn it on and off like a light — the cameras roll and he 's totally into Grant Mitchell . |
| 28 | We take our clothes off and I stick my penis into you and pull it in and out for a few minutes and white stuff comes out and you say ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
| 29 | Some 350 articles of equipment were carried in the 12 heavy tools vans which ran in the trains containing the steam cranes , and some of this equipment was so heavy as to need the use of demountable jib gallows with a frame at each double door to get it in and out of the van . |
| 30 | We have to expect more wastage , ca n't keep putting it in and out of the fridge , could poison somebody . |