Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 2 | A long thin red snake was moving slowly in and out of the holes . |
| 3 | I was obliged during the course of that first morning to go constantly in and out of the room , and so was unable to follow the proceedings at all fully . |
| 4 | If a field has a wooden hut where teams change into their kit you will certainly find plenty of lost coins around it ; money drops from pockets when players carry their clothes carelessly in and out of the hut . |
| 5 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 6 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 7 | ‘ Look there , ’ he said , pointing to where the ‘ gay ’ girls of Station Road shivered , stamped their feet , and walked morosely up and down beneath the flaring gas . |
| 8 | Stars dusted the sky but it was an attacker 's moon which slipped treacherously in and out of the clouds . |
| 9 | Quickly in and out of the sitting-room she slid three hundred pounds from out of her sleeping-bag , not wanting Philip to know how much was there — but only because she did not want anyone to know . |
| 10 | The markets in options that are deeply in or out of the money tend to be rather thin , and such options are not actively traded . |
| 11 | The hips at impact have started to turn towards the target , but the right shoulder is still back and out of the way . |
| 12 | After that , it was straight on and up to the hill pass . |
| 13 | He drove her carefully in and out of the busy Saturday morning traffic and wondered idly how he was going to explain about her to his mother , without saying where he got the money from . |
| 14 | The short course editions maintain the same teaching approach as Fast Forward , aiming to maximize results both in and out of the classroom . |
| 15 | Ackerley flouted convention both in and out of the office . |
| 16 | In quite a short time these simple exercises , though they may seem ineffective to Western minds , will reward the individual with a tremendously increased performance , both in and out of the kwoon . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , experience in a training unit does open up a wide range of career prospects , both in and out of the Services . |
| 18 | Polite , considerate behaviour is expected from the pupils at all times , both in and out of the School . |
| 19 | I walked along the oak-railed gallery , looking both down and up at the magnificent chimney . |
| 20 | He explained that the lager was manufactured by the Danes , an ancient seafaring people , to be drunk straight out of the can , so that the bubbles would move straight up and down in the stomach to counteract the sideways rocking movement of the boat . |
| 21 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 22 | I scrambled noisily and gracelessly out and up into the sunlight . |
| 23 | If they do , another injection , tube back down and back on the life-support machine . |
| 24 | He had prowled contentedly in and out of the vestry and bellroom while she got on with her chores , had watched critically while she had arranged her six daffodils eked out with foliage in the vase at the foot of the Virgin , and had viewed with the bland indifference of childhood Miss Wharton 's frequent genuflections , obviously taking these sudden bobbings to be one more manifestation of the peculiar antics of adults . |
| 25 | the only thing again that I 'm thinking of what if we gets them out of the caravan and we gets them into the car and we 're getting them in and out here and then we gets them back into the car to take them back over and in to the caravan , what if we rip the bloody things ? |
| 26 | But what have we here as plays the ball across , it comes back off and out to the left hand side where the urgency from the crowd is for to get rid of it . |
| 27 | There seemed to be a door cut into the wall that was farthest away from the window ; Fenella , trying to get her bearings , thought it would lead more deeply into the Workshops , perhaps even back and back into the cave part . |
| 28 | She used to go silently in and out of the room with a plate of food or a glass of beer . |
| 29 | That is , until a large white flag was hoisted and a party of resplendent heralds beneath it , these proceeding to pick their way heedfully in and out of the ditches , towards the North Gate . |
| 30 | These are frequently used to bring goats on heat , either in or out of the breeding season . |