Example sentences of "and [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 They would go out Glen Baily and past loch and then right over into Glen Shee and that up over the Devils Elbow then .
2 But there was a lot of them they used to work with er the oil lamps and that out in the henhouses. the hens eggs , they feed at night .
3 In the back , squashed in beside two hot and complaining children , Molly tried her best to restrain the youngest on her lap from wrenching open the door and free-falling out towards the autostrada .
4 She had undergone a sea-change into something rich and strange down in the depths of Lucifer .
5 The ones who had stopped were looking over their shoulders at a cordon of men drifting in twos and threes out of the side streets and doorways and converging on the play .
6 Nearly all the schools responded to the request ( 34 out of the 36 liaison group schools and 30 out of the 33 second phase schools ) , but some of these did not provide all the information asked for .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment .
10 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 .
11 " 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 .
12 Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures .
13 She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’
14 Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother .
18 Applications totalled 96 — 35 more than last year and 22 up on the previous highest total two years ago .
19 It will audit 175 out of The Times top 1,000 companies and 67 out of The Times top 500 financial companies .
20 The Company had a share capital of £30,000 , and six out of the ten directors were from Yorkshire !
21 In the case of rent and other payments of a periodic nature , the creditor may prove for any amounts due and unpaid up to the date of the bankruptcy order ( r 6.112(1) ) .
22 Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results .
23 As late as 1977 the biggest five firms in aerospace , office equipment ( including computers ) , scientific and photographic equipment were still American , as were the biggest four in paper and wood , the biggest three in vehicles , the biggest two in electronics and rubber , and three out of the biggest five in petroleum , industrial equipment and food .
24 And all up under the ?
25 were gon na meet Albert and all up in the park last night .
26 Unfortunately for him , the lady 's husband had also spotted his illicit signalling from the bedroom and grabbing his machine-gun he went to the window and shot the hang-glider pilot and all out of the sky in a hail of bullets .
27 There are three pines outside the house which spring tall , slender and black out of the watery green grass and are silhouetted against an angry battleship grey sky …
28 More broadly , there does not seem to be one simple hierarchy of types of job ( running from the most unskilled and casual up to the most responsible and secure ) , rather there are a number of different labour markets , partitioned from each other , and some operating on a sort of grapevine .
29 The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas .
30 After the performance , most people had the same idea : make their way from their actually more but socially less exalted levels of red and orange and purple down to the pink VIP level .
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