Example sentences of "in [conj] [adv prt] of [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ( iii ) Mechanically remove any follicular cells that remain attached to the eggs by pipetting them in and out of a narrow bore micropipette . |
4 | We sat together , watching the Youngest Son drift in and out of a drug-induced sleep . |
5 | Worn out by hunger and fatigue , she slipped in and out of an uneasy doze as the night darkened . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | While their fingers flew in and out of the earthy heap of beans Rose and Victorine talked . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | A pair of Harpies nest here , as they are just able to squeeze in and out of the narrow windows . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ I 'm up and down the stairs and in and out of the bloody shelter like a hen on a hot griddle . |
19 | Celia had been in and out of the Meadhaven Clinic three times now . |
20 | The whole afternoon was spent meandering in and out of the welcoming homes of Miss Kerr 's ageing contemporaries . |
21 | They do n't think you are going to steal it , and they never tell your children off if they touch things or run in and out of the hanging displays . |
22 | Not only is traffic on their motorways obstructing lorries going in and out of the vast Europoort , but public opposition to air pollution and the taking of scarce land for new roads is intense . |
23 | His daughter is played by Jane Birkin , the bilingual singer and actress , and one of the characteristic features of the film is the way the dialogue slips in and out of the two languages as if it were the most natural thing in the world . |
24 | Other committee members were in and out of the new Law Centre , holding meetings , planning strategy , contacting people with wide experience of the sort of situation they found themselves in , and collating information . |
25 | A very lazy way to spend a day in the sun , is to buy a ‘ day ’ ticket , and hop on and off the boats and in and out of the many cafes and restaurants dotted around the lake . |
26 | On a night in early winter , one of those wild exciting nights with a brilliant moon sliding in and out of the racing clouds , Mrs Browning rang , and asked if I would go down . |
27 | She went to the stone sink , scrubbed her hands under the single cold tap and set off on her perambulations again , slowly circling the big pine table , moving in and out of the gibbous pool of light shed by the candles . |
28 | Subtle lighting changes in and around the stage from magical lights are automatic , and the puppets can duck in and out of the curtained-off side-booths to change costumes . |
29 | The cast is a multitude of would-be actors , friends and passers-by who drift in and out of the bizarre action in sultry Austin , Texas . |
30 | Watch in delight as the city 's trendiest inhabitants jetski down Fifth Avenue , or strap on your tanks and check out the exotic undersea life flitting in and out of the ruined buildings where Harlem used to be . |