Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] in [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 " 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 .
3 And down in the highlands of the south there is the extremely rare mountain zebra , with bold but more vertically arranged flank stripes .
4 I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own .
5 Again , like back in the days of the civil rights demonstrations , it 's just another attempt at turning events around and shifting the focus from the real issues at hand ’ — Arrested Development 's Aerie Taree , resident on campus at Atlanta University , itself placed under curfew after demonstrations against the Rodney King verdict
6 About 350 million years ago , some appeared in which the sexual generation no longer grew flat on the ground , but up in the crowns of the trees .
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