Example sentences of "and [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it ran on , beyond the perimeter of the chamber , on and on in a straight line for hundreds of metres , for kilometres , dwindling in the distance to a taut thread against darkness but still stretching away . |
| 2 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 3 | The dark girl had dived into the bright turquoise swimming-pool , and was swimming up and down in a leisurely breast-stroke , moving through the myriad white marble reflections in the water like a fish . |
| 4 | Ride up and down in a chauffeur-driven limousine , smoking big cigars . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |
| 8 | His injured rear left leg wheeled over and over in a frantic bowling motion . |
| 9 | The hammer-blow force of the lethal chungdan ap-chagi foot-strike , catapulted Baal 's body up and over in a backward flip , his rib-cage crushed and imploded into his ruptured lungs . |
| 10 | And over in the last verse in that chapter it says , he who believes in the son , has eternal life but he who does not obey the son , shall not see life , but the wrath of God abides on him . |
| 11 | She 'd pick up a great lump of it and throw it over a nail and then oil her hands with spit and draw it out and out in a long skein , till it was smooth as glass … ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What is he like ? ’ asked Huy as soon as they were clear of the building and out in the broad street that ran close to the walls of the palace complex . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ It is a local anaesthetic and you are in and out in the same day . ’ |
| 14 | And out in the hard corn a horned god |
| 15 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 16 | Life on the Swindon bench has been full of heartbreak this season … so near and yet so far … it 's not so long ago that Town were winning week in week out … tomorrow they 've got Newcastle at home and back in the first division days they were no problem … 2-1 Swindon beat them last March |
| 17 | So there I was , back in plaster and back in the psychiatric hospital . |
| 18 | Tackle the problem of front and back in the same way , making it obvious which side is the front . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The band struck up another pastiche of Strauss and the tide of skaters waltzed round and round in a hypnotic swirl of hats and feathers . |
| 21 | We were going round and round in a weird dance and nearly slipped over in the pee that was splattered on the floor . |
| 22 | They climbed higher than any other birds , it seemed ; they ascended into the limitless blue until they became lost to sight or mere specks , drifting round and round in a free flight in which their wings scarcely seemed to move . |
| 23 | There was n't much to look at , though for once the sky was clear ; gulls were drifting round and round in an uneasy crowd , hardly making a sound , like scraps of newspaper spiralling in the wind . |