Example sentences of "and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | Creggan came out of his concrete shelter into his cage , the branch thrust right over it and on to the path in front , and smaller branches from it filling half his cage with confusion . |
2 | This pleasant hotel is built on a slight rise , and has excellent views of the mountains behind it and down to the village in front . |
3 | The exact circumstances are forgotten , but I do remember serving as baby-sitter for the Menuhin infant while Papa Yehudi took his violin off to the concert , and I recall walking up and down with the child in my arms to keep it from crying . |
4 | Mr Azul bucks up and down on the bed in a bizarre parody of sexual energy . |
5 | It must be continuous around the walls , so on a sloping site it will step up and down along the joints in the brickwork . |
6 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
7 | Cut away and down behind the bud in a gentle curve . |
8 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
9 | Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale . |
10 | Below them were moored feluccas with their long thin yards curving back and up from the masts in the same immaculate line . |
11 | The WWF reported that some live animals are smuggled into and out of the country in oil drums , plastic bags and even cigarette cartons . |
12 | And as a background she could still see those policemen going in and out of the house in Mouncy Street the day she had seen John Coffin sitting outside . |
13 | We could not do the trip in and out of the town in time to catch the last plane that evening , so we were condemned to this place and an early flight . |
14 | ‘ Well , when you use a vibrato bar guitar , when you hit the strings really hard , a lot of the vibration gets transferred to the springs and back into the bar in a sort of flutter and I really do n't like that sound at all . |
15 | If Iran , weary and broke after its war with Iraq , has waved goodbye to its proselytising days , this is a valid reason for easing it out of its isolation and back to the position in Gulf politics which , from the shah on , it has craved and which reflects the size of its population and length of its coastline . |
16 | I returned to the ratlines while we made an arc inshore and back to the north in 50 – 60ft ( 15 – 18m ) of water . |
17 | He had pursued the errant couple from The Times party to Brighton 's only Portuguese restaurant and back to the lift in the Grand Hotel . |
18 | Thunderbirds , the Next Generation is at the Oxford Playhouse until Saturday and back in the region in Swindon at the Wyvern Theatre from July the twenty eighth until August the first . |
19 | Helen , never taking her eyes off Alexandra , craned sideways so that she could wind a finger round and round in a hole in her black stocking . |