Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A round-up of what local schoolkids say is IN and OUT in the classroom is sure to shock ‘ wrinklies ’ . |
| 2 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 3 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 4 | I turn back and carry on looking in the window , but it 's hard to concentrate with this blue light flashing on and off in the glass . |
| 5 | Cell proliferation is constantly being turned on and off in the target organs . |
| 6 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 7 | ‘ For I am weary ’ , he wrote , ‘ with rowing up and down in the seas of questions , which the interests of Christendom have commenced , and in many propositions of which I am not certain that I am not deceived . ’ |
| 8 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 9 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 10 | From the pilot 's seat one gets an unusual view , through the ( intentional ) hole in the rocker cover , of the valves going up and down in the port cylinder . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 12 | The vicar paced behind , holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door . |
| 13 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 14 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 15 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 16 | He explained that the lager was manufactured by the Danes , an ancient seafaring people , to be drunk straight out of the can , so that the bubbles would move straight up and down in the stomach to counteract the sideways rocking movement of the boat . |
| 17 | The box shows the current colour , containing the figure 1 , will adjust to the shade as you move the bars up and down in the paint pot . |
| 18 | " Later that evening , as El-ahrairah was urging his rabbits to growl more fiercely and run up and down in the marshes of Kelfazin , Prince Rainbow came over the river . |
| 19 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 20 | She was pacing up and down in the house , was hostile to other family members and was shouting at voices that she ( and no-one else ) heard . |
| 21 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 22 | The foliage was achieved by allowing the cutter to run up and down in the timber . |
| 23 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 24 | They were n't badly off because I do believe they ran a car and she would wear a lovely fox fur when she was out and about in the dale . |
| 25 | When you are out and about in the country make sure you keep the Country Code . |
| 26 | Despite all the drawbacks , I still enjoy getting out and about in the countryside whenever I can . |
| 27 | The crucial thing to remember in all this is that you are looking at birds and getting out and about in the countryside — the birds may just be the excuse — because you enjoy it , not to pass an " A " level . |
| 28 | ‘ This is only to be expected with more people taking advantage of the good weather to get out and about in the countryside . |
| 29 | I mean I would love to see a newspaper but the current staffing of the office does n't permit that also the costing of it erm but I 've very little input from this department and really while all out and about in the force and just a tip off about something human interest or whatever would be appreciated . |
| 30 | He is still himself — still rather short and tubby , with a high forehead , and dry hair that turns upwards and back in the wind of his passage . |