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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Oh well I think I 'll ju I 'll just play with the tab and make it pop in and out a few times
4 Quakers were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat-trick .
5 Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick .
6 The essential principle of this Lift ( which is to be used in lieu of a flight of locks ) is floating of the barge or vessel into a tank and the conveying of that tank with its floating load broadside up or down a slope or inclined plane to a higher or lower pond of the canal respectively into which it is floated from the tank , which is left ready for another barge going in the opposite direction .
7 where it makes sense and is practicable , the pupil may be moved up or down a key stage for the subject in question by placing him or her in a teaching group in which the majority of pupils are older or younger …
8 If the ground is hard , and even a bit bumpy , the ball will usually bumble its way quite satisfactorily up or down a bank and distance is fairly easy to judge .
9 Stretch the upper arm up and over a little further than yesterday — approximately 24 ins ( 61 cm ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Where the great lake joined the river , at Drumshanbo , we headed directly southward and soon were in neat white Leitrim Village , a row of houses up and down a hillside street .
13 He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return .
14 If you look carefully , you may see some ridge and furrow which lie in a reverse-S pattern , a result of the logistics facing the medieval ploughman , who had to manoeuvre eight oxen up and down a field .
15 I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast .
16 It is the only inland funicular railway in this country , and is still in operation , its cars travelling up and down a gradient of 1–1½ and worked nowadays by electric motor .
17 Up and down a few more hills .
18 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times .
19 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 25 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
20 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
21 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 30 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
22 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times , holding each raise for 1 second .
23 Swing the leg forwards and lift it up and down a few inches , 35 times .
24 if only to reduce the number of 100 metre ( 330 ft ) round trips up and down a fully paid-out set of lines , which always seems to happen when you are on your own !
25 Wooden dolls are slid up and down a pole in time with the music , and castanets and bells , on the dolls ' backs , make a percussion sound .
26 They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes .
27 It coped easily with gently curved edges , and was in its element coasting up and down a slightly sloping lawn , producing those satisfying stripes that can make mowing a distinct pleasure .
28 The police were quickly on the scene and had Trevor walking up and down a straight line .
29 The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality .
30 Nowadays I ca n't bear anything to do with football , kicking an air-filled pig 's bladder up and down a muddy pitch ai n't my idea of fun .
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