Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [conj] out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The needle snicked in and out of the fabric , and then he leaned back on his heels , scowling . |
| 2 | Or Fergie did when she hopped in and out of cars wearing Honest-Jill-Ordinary leggings and sweatshirts which said , ‘ Hey , forget Bali , I 'm just a working mum like you ! ’ |
| 3 | Again the camera plane turned , and they swung to follow it ; and between them and the Line three trim shapes plunged in and out of cloud in a dive pointed at the F2B . |
| 4 | Make-up girls fluttered in and out with powder puffs . |
| 5 | There was no sign of the three people I was looking for , although there were a few strange faces : three or four wives with young children sent out to grass from Athens , and one or two old couples , dehydrated rentiers , who doddered in and out of the mournful lounges of the Hotel Philadelphia . |
| 6 | You 're sure you got in and out of the house unobserved ? ’ |
| 7 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 8 | She had no idea whether he lived in or out of the hospital . |
| 9 | He was attracted by the atomic theories of antiquity , which had themselves been associated with the possibility of plural worlds as different combinations of atoms passed in and out of being . |
| 10 | Above which , an embroidery of light flickered in and out of existence , stitching hints of a sampler spelling out death . |
| 11 | The red rays flickered in and out of the grass stems , flashing minutely on membranous wings , casting long shadows behind the thinnest of filamentary legs , breaking each pitch of bare soil into a myriad individual grains . |
| 12 | TOLBY FLICKERED IN and out of sight as he walked along the line of parked cars . |
| 13 | He paced in and out of Gabriel 's view , rolling back the sleeve of his dust-grimy shirt and baring his hairy left arm . |
| 14 | The car bumped in and out of potholes . |
| 15 | Rayleigh and Jeans , who did their calculations by different methods , had both supposed that the energy seeped in and out of the black body in a perfectly continuous way . |
| 16 | Her mind swam in and out of sleep and the fire burned lower . |
| 17 | Jessica swam in and out of the local scene , and would be noticed , if not recorded . |
| 18 | Bobbing lanterns wove in and out of the goods trains in the College Rail Yard . |
| 19 | They wove in and out of other couples . |
| 20 | Soliciting funds on the street , and becoming a growing presence at neighbourhood meetings , the Newmanites ( then numbering perhaps 30 committed members ) moved in and out of coalitions and vicious factional struggles with other marginal groups . |
| 21 | Once there , Maria let her robe slide from her shoulders before stepping quickly out of her pants while Luke undressed swiftly , tantalising shadows playing over his flesh , revealed and then tormentingly concealed as he moved in and out of the circle of soft golden light that came from the lamp at one side of her low , wide bed . |
| 22 | D. H. You have said that your family moved in and out of illness : did this give you the position to turn breast cancer and person-centred health issues into political photography ? |
| 23 | Alone in her head , as he moved in and out of her , she brooded . |
| 24 | The vessels that sailed in and out of the Minoan harbours , whether bay-hopping round the Cretan coast or bound for far-distant ports , were generally rather small . |
| 25 | The Avignon sailed in and out of thick belts of marshy , deserted jungle , and sometimes he caught sight of villages of stilted houses with matting walls built in the clearings . |
| 26 | Young victims from all over the Ukraine and far beyond came in and out of Makarenko 's institution . |
| 27 | There were several Men who regularly came in and out of the Cages to clean and feed the eagles . |
| 28 | People came in and out of the glass doors . |
| 29 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 30 | A friend of the band weaved in and out of the crowd , recording their performance on a video camera . |