Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 2 | Before she could even breathe his lips were on hers , fiercely and demandingly in a kiss that seemed to last forever . |
| 3 | In 1921 Lloyd George came suddenly and dramatically to an accommodation with Sinn Fein . |
| 4 | So I think I 'm asking for just a bit more , more talks and where there is a , a home or homes in a rural area that may be the only home in that area , so it is available to local people that Social Services come in and there in an understanding in planning authorities first and now the actual criteria we 're working on because most local people will think that home is for local people . |
| 5 | The top swivels open to reveal the photoconductor cartridge for insertion and replacement , while the toner cartridge slides in and out through a flap on the front of the machine below the paper tray . |
| 6 | Since the distance and aperture remain the same , only more or less of the same picture is being shown , just as if a camera in a museum or on an animation stand were moving in and out on an oil painting . |
| 7 | ‘ In and out without a by-your-leave , and they do n't even say goodbye . ’ |
| 8 | The drawers slide smoothly in and out without a sound ; one of the perks of picking on the well-off rather than the chipboard classes . |
| 9 | Too short a line will make hooking in and out of a waist harness very difficult |
| 10 | Even the methods of getting information in and out of a computer have changed beyond recognition . |
| 11 | ‘ Now the thaw 's come , anyone could slip in and out of a postern gate . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been in and out of a lot of jails in my time . ’ |
| 13 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 14 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 15 | The only memorable moment comes when Martin commiserates with me over an ambitious red that squirms in and out of a pocket . |
| 16 | Now sometimes when archaeologists carry out the work they have to get in and out of a site really quickly . |
| 17 | They will see it as getting in and out of a chair the right way . |
| 18 | Mr Yenici told the committee in London he had believed he would be in the private hospital at least a month , but was ‘ in and out within a week ’ . |
| 19 | They want him in and out within a month at the very outside . |
| 20 | In and out in an hour , a bit healthy exercise , and the folk of Coll avenged ! ’ |
| 21 | He 's in and out like a devil . |
| 22 | His every day includes periods like this , he 's in and out like a faraway signal . |
| 23 | In Peru , for example , people from the Andes are moving down and across as a front into the Amazon plain . |
| 24 | Read through your full speech several times , preferably aloud and preferably into a tape-recorder , but do not try to memorise it word for word . |
| 25 | James Coats , junior ( 1841–1912 ) , was a member of the Paisley family of industrialists J. & P. Coats , whom most of us know best as the makers of sewing cotton but he appears to have made the presentation of these libraries Personally and not through a trust established in connection with the firm . |
| 26 | ‘ When somebody is in a situation where they feel there is no way out , feel trapped , lost , unloved , helpless , powerless , they are in a definite negative spiral and are getting deeper and deeper into a place where they are more and more frightened and despairing . |
| 27 | An ally is a nation which you beat fair and square in a war some time ago and which is now on your side . |
| 28 | Is he to stand behind her , to take her right hand in his right and to lift it over her head while their clasped left hands stretch sideways before they move swiftly and diagonally into an allement ? |
| 29 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 30 | Our end of the village has thought long and hard for a couple of weeks about John Major 's new honours system and we 've decided to go for it . |