Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
| 2 | In Method B , the amount to be paid out is a predetermined pool of money adjusted up or down in line with the year 's change in profits . |
| 3 | I have probably missed a few esoteric cuisines and no doubt some of the possibilities you 'll see chalked up on the blackboard or down in the menus , but you 've got the general idea by now . |
| 4 | They spent their evenings together in a trattoria on the square beside the Ponte Milvio or down in Trastevere , before a couple of hours at his place , or half a night at her apartment . |
| 5 | She said , ‘ She 's out on the hills , or down in the fields . ’ |
| 6 | Our numerical system makes us round figures up or down in 10s and 5s . |
| 7 | Everyone else is out , or down in the kitchen ; the children are in bed . |
| 8 | I 'm either up in the clouds or down in the dumps — you ought to know that by now . |
| 9 | two people to go to John , erm because erm , apart from anything else it was agreed John 's arm was twisted yesterday to take two people and g and the work but the issue is is that the K does n't , the issue is is that there is no budget anywhere for it either here or down in John 's area . |
| 10 | You 've got until nine o'clock tomorrow morning to have route round the attic or down in the cellar to see if you 've got a small fortune waiting to be discovered . |
| 11 | How many times have you seen a horse with his head tied in with draw reins at a show and as soon as the gadget is removed his head shoots up or down in an effort to stretch the neck . |
| 12 | The pendulum which seems to have swung very far in one direction will either swing back or over in a circle and the extreme position will not be maintained . |
| 13 | Also , the demographic structure was gradually shifting towards a higher representation of older age-groups ( 12 per cent aged 65 years or over in 1951 , compared with 3.5 per cent in 1901 ) , and changes in household composition produced increasing numbers of elderly people living alone ( Wall 1982 ) . |
| 14 | Widows who remarry , or live with a man as his wife , cease to receive widows ' pension unless , that is , they are aged 60 or over in which case they may continue to receive their pension . |
| 15 | Thus the traditional retirement resorts have already experienced a large increase in the number of very elderly people who place extra demands on health and residential care facilities , to the extent that in places like Worthing , Hastings , Eastbourne and Clacton around one in eight people were aged 75 or over in 1981 . |
| 16 | The non-white population is young ; in 1985–7 , 35% were aged under 16 and 18% aged 45 or over ( compared with 20% under 16 and 36% 45 or over in the population as a whole ) ( OPCS , 1988 , p. 31 , Table 3 ) . |
| 17 | The message conveyed to the brain from one such cell is a bit ambiguous : it is saying either that a stationary spot is going on or off in a particular region , or that something is moving upwards in that region . |
| 18 | The voltage applied to each phase circuit is a d.c. supply which can be switched on or off in the positive or negative sense . |
| 19 | Scrolling a file within a window generates a series of ‘ plunks ’ going down or up in pitch . |
| 20 | ‘ From Arsenal 's point of view , it 's good to have many players to choose from but Anders can not be happy sitting on the bench or up in the stands . |
| 21 | Perhaps up in the or up in the mountain . |
| 22 | Are you gon na get them down here or up in Newmarket ? |
| 23 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm glad to see so many clowns here instead of where they should be — in Westminster or back in their constituencies , ’ quips Ron Moody , president of Clowns International , at the official opening of the European Clowns ' Convention on 21 March . |
| 25 | So he did nothing for Mary or Rufus that morning , did not even seek them out , scarcely knew whether Rufus was still asleep on the terrace or back in bed with Mary , and when he found further sleep impossible because of his shivering body and pounding head , he sat in the kitchen making instant coffee for himself but took none up to them . |
| 26 | At some later time they could , by chance , all be in the right half or back in the left half , but it is overwhelmingly more probable that there will be roughly equal numbers in the two halves . |
| 27 | Stored and forgotten , or out in the deep desert beyond ? |
| 28 | Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street . |
| 29 | Or out in the street playing out the way . |
| 30 | He has recovered his form superbly after a broken finger threatened his career last season , and England boss Graham Taylor said : ‘ Sometimes when you 're with a Second Division club or out in the far North East you can feel forgotten . |