Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was restored both inside and out in the 1860s by V. I. Ullmann and B. Wachsmann , although there are some remains of 14C frescos . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ It is a local anaesthetic and you are in and out in the same day . ’ |
| 5 | His injured rear left leg wheeled over and over in a frantic bowling motion . |
| 6 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 7 | The hammer-blow force of the lethal chungdan ap-chagi foot-strike , catapulted Baal 's body up and over in a backward flip , his rib-cage crushed and imploded into his ruptured lungs . |
| 8 | The dark girl had dived into the bright turquoise swimming-pool , and was swimming up and down in a leisurely breast-stroke , moving through the myriad white marble reflections in the water like a fish . |
| 9 | Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine , smoking big cigars . |
| 10 | During that period the bees would be working busily up and down in the fermenting liquid and at the end of the two weeks it was ready for straining and bottling . |
| 11 | He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny , enjoying every minute of it . |
| 12 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |
| 13 | She held the pole two handed , as if administering the death thrust with Excalibur , plunging it up and down in the soggy mass with a ferocity that had little to do with getting the clothes clean . |
| 14 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 15 | Er , speaking of accountants , I must tell you that one of the perks of my job is to be able to get out and about in the real world , to real companies , meeting real people . |
| 16 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 17 | They climbed higher than any other birds , it seemed ; they ascended into the limitless blue until they became lost to sight or mere specks , drifting round and round in a free flight in which their wings scarcely seemed to move . |
| 18 | The band struck up another pastiche of Strauss and the tide of skaters waltzed round and round in a hypnotic swirl of hats and feathers . |
| 19 | We were going round and round in a weird dance and nearly slipped over in the pee that was splattered on the floor . |
| 20 | There was n't much to look at , though for once the sky was clear ; gulls were drifting round and round in an uneasy crowd , hardly making a sound , like scraps of newspaper spiralling in the wind . |
| 21 | ‘ Then why do I get the distinct impression that we 're going round and round in the same circles ? ’ |