Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 There 's not much we can do with being in or out the building or is there ?
2 Yet typically it was a journey not of niggle and frustration but full of accommodation , friendliness and amusement : a kind of ‘ in and out the dusty bluebells ’ played with bulging sacks .
3 She drifted , quietly invisible , among the clansfolk going in and out the great gate , past the sentries , across the courtyard to the door in the far corner .
4 Continually fighting in and out the dug-out , bickering over team selection and a 1954 Ford Popular , the Mentle/Pybus partnership was completely unworkable .
5 I can be in and out the same day . ’
6 Yeah , well they 'd be in and out the yard and everywhere I 'd , wherever they used to be I do n't know .
7 Ian walked quickly across the lawn from the diocesan office towards the Cathedral , weaving in and out the groups of tourists , many of them Dutch , who visited the town in summer .
8 Oh well , she said , you see , it 's my work , she said I work in a , in an insurance office and she said I 'm in and out the courts all the time , you see so he knocked down the wrong person
9 I.H. Madrid , set in a thriving centrally located area of Madrid , offers a pleasant and lively language school for adults with a wide range of activities both in and out the classroom
10 People were coming in and out the shadows , like telling his mum to cuddle up to go everything .
11 You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences .
12 Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes .
13 Mike went down to assist Dave Lister in sorting out the rope which was still attached to him , and Dave moved along and up the bergschrund to aid Steve in routefinding as he downclimbed , diagonally to the right , towards a narrower slot which he might cross unroped .
14 Death raced downstairs and out the front door to look in the baby carriage under the cherry tree .
15 She says , ‘ Anything to do with knitting seems to go in my head and stay , buy anything to do with cooking and cleaning goes straight through and out the other side ! ’
16 An absolute torrent of them comes pouring through and down the junk-chute .
17 And more of the calories that go into your mouth will , to put it bluntly , go straight through and down the lavatory .
18 Ahead , the ball was bumping and slowly losing momentum over the divots , and Paul Hedley , the South Sussex Number Four , was galloping over to ride her off and back the ball up the field .
19 Every morning at sunrise and every evening at sunset a flag was run up or down the flagstaff on our roof ; it was the company flag but we thought it was Fa 's .
20 In the late seventies and early eighties , travel to Cosford could sometimes be likened to a cross-polar expedition as athletes and spectators battled through blizzards and packed snow , up or down the M6 and along the A5 , or up the A41 from Wolverhampton .
21 Slide the chord shape up or down the fretboard into various keys and the scale goes with it , so to speak .
22 This sophisticated-looking arrangement actually proved very simple to adjust — you just loosen the recessed screws with a coin and move the belt and harness up or down the base plat to the position you want , then retighten the screws .
23 The effect of this profoundly important innovation was that members of Congress were required to vote up or down the administration 's complete package of cuts at the beginning of the congressional phase of the budgetary process .
24 A 15–20 minute drive by car ( included in the price ) leads to quiet beaches and , a further five minutes up or down the coast , are a stretch of interesting small resorts from Bari to Brindisi .
25 Social mobility can refer to any movement up or down the occupational hierarchy , though sociologists often emphasise cross-class mobility .
26 On most adjustable looms the vertical beams are fixed and one or both of the horizontal beams , which hold the warp strands in place , can be moved up or down the frame .
27 Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) .
28 They are executed by drawing a finger rapidly up or down the strings .
29 All users may display information about their relations , up or down the family tree .
30 But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all .
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