Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He was under immense pressure from the US to give in and back no holds barred military action by UN forces in the former Yugoslav republic .
2 He was under immense pressure to give in and back no holds barred military action by UN forces in the former Yugoslav republic .
3 ‘ Penny is in and out every few minutes at present , and we do n't want her to guess that we 're more than just owner and programme manager , do we ? ’
4 There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot .
5 No fresh cool wind had swept through the valley for days , and the same stagnant air had been breathed in and out a hundred times by the whole gasping village .
6 Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Continually fighting in and out the dug-out , bickering over team selection and a 1954 Ford Popular , the Mentle/Pybus partnership was completely unworkable .
10 I can be in and out the same day . ’
11 Yeah , well they 'd be in and out the yard and everywhere I 'd , wherever they used to be I do n't know .
12 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 .
13 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
14 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
15 People were coming in and out the shadows , like telling his mum to cuddle up to go everything .
16 You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences .
17 Quakers were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat-trick .
18 Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick .
19 Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes .
20 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 .
21 Death raced downstairs and out the front door to look in the baby carriage under the cherry tree .
22 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 ! ’
23 An absolute torrent of them comes pouring through and down the junk-chute .
24 And more of the calories that go into your mouth will , to put it bluntly , go straight through and down the lavatory .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 She dreamed , not for the last time , that the baby had prematurely got out , like a kangaroo embryo , and was making its way blind and white and tiny up and up the billowing creases of Mrs Orton 's purple front , as that woman talked on and on , shifting so that at every turn the climbing thing was about to be casually suffocated .
28 Stretch the upper arm up and over a little further than yesterday — approximately 24 ins ( 61 cm ) .
29 Sometimes he would be climbing up and down a cliff and he found himself stuck , unable to get higher and unable to climb down and once he was left clinging on a ledge for ever .
30 We may see rage in a bucking horse , acute anxiety in a solitary horse galloping up and down a fence , great fear in a horse that cowers and jams its tail down hard between its hind legs , or elation in a pony that has escaped from a yard and is prancing around the paddock in an exuberant high-stepping trot .
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