Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 station and train staff are always very courteous and helpful ; quite often the guard takes the trouble to help me on or off with the bike ; and station staff are good at guessing in advance what part of the train will take the bike , hence where to stand on the platform . |
| 4 | Sarah ( 4.9 ) and Donna ( 3.11 ) put them in and out of the wheelbarrow . |
| 5 | Another nice touch is that you can swop from one PCMCIA card to another by simply sliding them in and out of the slot . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Andy licked his fingers and started to stroke them up and down over the purple bulge of his cock . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've seen him on and off over the years . ’ |
| 14 | Holmes 's aide Dick Lovell said : ‘ We whisked him in and out under the cover of darkness . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We have to expect more wastage , ca n't keep putting it in and out of the fridge , could poison somebody . |
| 20 | He bought the 11-year-old Silver Spirit last January and since then has had it in and out of the garage because of problems with the steering . |
| 21 | Five of them to one desperately weakened pony with sunken eyes and ribs you could play tunes on — lassoing it with weighted thongs , and pulling it over and over on the desperately hard ground , until it was crapping everywhere in terror . |
| 22 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | She held the pole two handed , as if administering the death thrust with Excalibur , plunging it up and down in the soggy mass with a ferocity that had little to do with getting the clothes clean . |
| 24 | The mantri looked it up and down from the doorway without saying a word . |
| 25 | He kebabs his victim on the end of a spike and then turns it round and round over the flames . |