Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gobbets seemed to wink in and out of existence . |
| 2 | The children began to jump in and out of the boat , arranging and re-arranging themselves . |
| 3 | A mile or so on , however , and thoughts of Cara began bouncing in and out of her head . |
| 4 | His prong began to thrust in and out of her like a greased piston , and she found it slipped up her arse as often as it penetrated her vagina . |
| 5 | Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table . |
| 6 | The bricks and iron and peeling paint were somehow analogous to the people he saw passing in and out of them , with their dirty faces , stooping postures , and threadbare clothes . |
| 7 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 8 | He had gone in and out by the rear door and back stairs and seen no one but Linley . |
| 9 | Sunlight beat down on them , now the tall mahogany and fig trees were thinned around ; the ferns shrivelled in the shafts ; animals which had wandered in and out of Sycorax 's compound now watered in the creek further upstream , and avoided the company of men . |
| 10 | We had to get in and out of life rafts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The poles slid glistening in and out of the water as the craft approached and then beached with a bump . |