Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ In and out without a by-your-leave , and they do n't even say goodbye . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Too short a line will make hooking in and out of a waist harness very difficult |
| 7 | Even the methods of getting information in and out of a computer have changed beyond recognition . |
| 8 | ‘ Now the thaw 's come , anyone could slip in and out of a postern gate . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been in and out of a lot of jails in my time . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The only memorable moment comes when Martin commiserates with me over an ambitious red that squirms in and out of a pocket . |
| 13 | Now sometimes when archaeologists carry out the work they have to get in and out of a site really quickly . |
| 14 | They will see it as getting in and out of a chair the right way . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | They want him in and out within a month at the very outside . |
| 17 | In and out in an hour , a bit healthy exercise , and the folk of Coll avenged ! ’ |
| 18 | He 's in and out like a devil . |
| 19 | His every day includes periods like this , he 's in and out like a faraway signal . |
| 20 | In Peru , for example , people from the Andes are moving down and across as a front into the Amazon plain . |
| 21 | She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers . |
| 22 | A half sheet of hard-board from your DIY store can be used over and over as a base , but it does blunt the blade . |
| 23 | She was saying it over and over like a chant . |
| 24 | And when the frantic , plunging ride was over , ecstasy a fading quiver of memory and her swollen lips no longer muttering his name over and over in a delirium of rapture , he broke her heart all over again by moving right away from her , the distance between them , now that passion was spent once more , saying everything about their relationship . |
| 25 | on and on and on and on and on as a border , now she thinks that 's about the washing machine ad you know the Ariston washing ad , on and on . |
| 26 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 27 | Its light flickered on and off for a moment , as if it was making itself comfortable in a mechanical kind of way . |
| 28 | After studying accountancy at Chicago University , he worked on and off as an investment analyst . |
| 29 | Bare coloured bulbs flashed on and off around a come-on sign . |
| 30 | I suspect all doctors must learn how to turn charm on and off like a tap . |