Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [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 | If you 're moving in or out of a multi-storey block , try to arrange priority at lifts and make sure there 's a suitable place to load or unload the van . |
| 4 | It was not really practical to operate it from his airstrip at Sutton Bridge , where the ‘ Me 108 ’ and Stearman were based , although the Corsair could easily be flown in and out on an occasional basis . |
| 5 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |
| 6 | several streets all very like one another , and many more streets still more like one another , inhabited by people equally like one another , who all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow , and every year the counterpart of the last and the next . |
| 7 | Dickens likened the piston of the steam engine to " the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness " , but even by 1815 it was only a minority of the working population who had as yet been cast in the mould of his 1845 Coketowners who , " all went in and out at the same hours , with the same sound upon the same pavements , to do the same work , and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow " . |
| 8 | The away end bogs , according to who was forced to abandon half-times plans for a piss , are Heysel revisited — one narrow tunnel going into and coming out of the place was crammed with hundreds of fans all going in and out at the same time , plus a few old bills looking on saying helpfully ‘ I should n't do that if I were you . |
| 9 | Air sawed in and out with a curious , inhuman noise like a faulty ratchet . |
| 10 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
| 11 | We take our clothes off and I stick my penis into you and pull it in and out for a few minutes and white stuff comes out and you say ‘ Is that it ? ’ |
| 12 | Of course if you want real STOL performance — to get in and out of a small lake or tightly winding river , perhaps — this is the machine for it . |
| 13 | ( iii ) Mechanically remove any follicular cells that remain attached to the eggs by pipetting them in and out of a narrow bore micropipette . |
| 14 | We sat together , watching the Youngest Son drift in and out of a drug-induced sleep . |
| 15 | Worn out by hunger and fatigue , she slipped in and out of an uneasy doze as the night darkened . |
| 16 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 17 | In that era , so much of the day was spent climbing in and out of the correct clothes that there ca n't have been much time left for recreation . |
| 18 | The dancers inside the inn were all fetched to the door by Garvey roaring with demented laughter , slapping his thighs and reeling in and out of the streaming rain . |
| 19 | While their fingers flew in and out of the earthy heap of beans Rose and Victorine talked . |
| 20 | The vessels that sailed in and out of the Minoan harbours , whether bay-hopping round the Cretan coast or bound for far-distant ports , were generally rather small . |
| 21 | I think personalised shirts , or even any shirts may be asking for trouble if we are going to mingle rather than just get herded in and out of the away enclosure . |
| 22 | They were the ones nipping in and out of the general ruck , tapping ankles , trying to spray-paint out the windows and one of them even trying to set fire to a bunch of leaflets stuffed through Naamen 's letter-box . |
| 23 | If he cracks down on you , London would crack down on all the fringe people who go in and out of the Soviet network there . |
| 24 | Rayleigh and Jeans , who did their calculations by different methods , had both supposed that the energy seeped in and out of the black body in a perfectly continuous way . |
| 25 | A pair of Harpies nest here , as they are just able to squeeze in and out of the narrow windows . |
| 26 | There was no sign of the three people I was looking for , although there were a few strange faces : three or four wives with young children sent out to grass from Athens , and one or two old couples , dehydrated rentiers , who doddered in and out of the mournful lounges of the Hotel Philadelphia . |
| 27 | As ever , little was done to conceal anything from me as I went in and out of the various rooms in which these gentlemen sat deep in discussion , and I thus could not avoid gaining a certain impression of the general mood at this stage of the proceedings . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm up and down the stairs and in and out of the bloody shelter like a hen on a hot griddle . |
| 29 | Celia had been in and out of the Meadhaven Clinic three times now . |
| 30 | The whole afternoon was spent meandering in and out of the welcoming homes of Miss Kerr 's ageing contemporaries . |