Example sentences of "in [coord] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 2 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 3 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 4 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 5 | " Lagoon " is a bit grand : it 's really just a big old swamp , surrounded by droopy trees with their roots half in and half out of the water . |
| 6 | Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures . |
| 7 | She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’ |
| 8 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 9 | He was half in and half out of the cloakroom , stripping off his ski-suit , jumping about on one leg with his other foot caught in the elasticated cuff . |
| 10 | The alarm was raised when the train stopped half in and half out of the station , and its driver radioed to say there was fighting on board . |