Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ It is a local anaesthetic and you are in and out in the same day . ’ |
| 3 | In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend . |
| 4 | What else , after all , was Christ in his death but the keenest image of abjection and arrogance , the epitome of that transgressive masochism which has played such an important part in making and unmaking our culture , not least in the figure of the martyr , and which figures over and again in the cultural depictions of the crucifix ? |
| 5 | I mean Tramp is gon na come up and fucking in the English dict dictionary and they 're gon na say a meaning unknown . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He went down early each morning and jumped up and down in the briny , enjoying every minute of it . |
| 8 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The piston itself is a rectangular hardwood board 15½ × 8 × ¾in , which moves back and forth in the first chamber , pushed ( or pulled ) by two ½in rods which extend through one end of the bellows and are joined on the outside by a handle . |
| 12 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 13 | ‘ Then why do I get the distinct impression that we 're going round and round in the same circles ? ’ |