Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] and [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
2 | Its light flickered on and off for a moment , as if it was making itself comfortable in a mechanical kind of way . |
3 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
4 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
5 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
6 | He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed . |
7 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |