Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may see a guy wandering in and out groups and that 's a guy called Geoff who works for the British National Corpus and these are the people who are trying to have or produce ten million words of the written word and a hundred million erm spoken words , which is a corpus whereby , er come and look at the English language at some time in the future and identify and listen to some of your and your dialects and what you said so make sure you have lots of input as we 've got quite a broad spectrum of different dialects today but he 'll be wandering in and out er throughout today . |
| 2 | To help , Tarantino took Roth on a tour of places like In And Out Burger , and gave him a crash course in the kind of trash culture that would have surrounded an LA child of the Seventies — old TV copy shows , cartoons like Speed Racer , Fantastic Four comics , bubblegum pop . |
| 3 | His probably in and out doors so quick you ca n't see him . |
| 4 | Rather than the in and out sort of capital which I think is reflected so much by overdraft financing . |
| 5 | And Tom Waites is another one of his down and out alley pals . |
| 6 | Most , most criminals do n't want to get caught but there are the odd exceptions who are a bit idiotic er but we erm they 're very rare and usually high on drugs on something like that , but we 're just your ordinary sort of down and out type criminal who wants to break in some way . |
| 7 | Andrew MacKinlay at Thurrock was praised to me by someone who knew him well , not for any sort of high-flying , but for through and through decency : and anyone removing Tim ‘ I propose to call these people ‘ the Ethnics ' ’ Janman has instant appeal . |
| 8 | The assimilationist thrust was , and still is , through and through essentialist . |
| 9 | Over and over Mrs Browning emphasised what a deal of trouble the Ogilvys were being put to on her behalf , by allowing their maid to do what she was going to do , and Wilson knew it was true . |
| 10 | Up and down rivers and brooks , the remains of some of these and many later water-mills can be seen . |
| 11 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 12 | The tunnel , a short one , was a single bore as the up and down lines were separated there . |
| 13 | The idea is that unadvertised , untimetabled trains cruise up and down lines where BR has experienced particular problems . |
| 14 | The idea is that unadvertised , untimetabled trains cruise up and down lines where BR has experienced particular problems . |
| 15 | Briefly , approximately 100 mg pancreatic tissue from each animal was homogenized in a medium containing 0.25 M sucrose , 1 mM ethylenediaminetetra acetic acid ( EDTA ) and 25 mg% soybean trypsin inhibitor in a Dounce homogeniser ( using five up and down strokes of the ‘ B ’ pestle ) . |
| 16 | Hosanna was mad today , running up and down curtains like a kitten . |
| 17 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 18 | The relationship between ants and other animals , particularly their farmed Homoptera feeding off the host plants is complicated in itself but , in the Old World Tropics , mosquitoes of the genus Malaya are associated in their habits with certain ants , which run up and down tree trunks carrying the honey-dew they have taken from their aphids . |
| 19 | As part of this cognitive revolution , psychoanalytic machines called ‘ psychoscopes ’ have been invented to generate ‘ biograms ’ , ‘ the extracted absolute of your unconscious patterns throughout your life … telescoped in time into one line that shows your harmonious rhythm , your up and down tendencies ’ ( 147/149 ) . |
| 20 | For five or ten minutes we were all rushing up and down passages and in and out of rooms , challenging each other and answering , ‘ Smee ? |
| 21 | Battered from side to side and up and down bits are torn from the main body and break away exposing parts from the reserve miscelles . |
| 22 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
| 23 | The brief was for current Elektra roster acts to interpret the creative outpourings of their predecessors on the label : the result is an excusably , and laudably , up and down affair , with pale recreations nestling up to inspired rethinks . |
| 24 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 25 | Battling up and down motorways in cars ! |
| 26 | That is not conducive to recovery and nor is the practice of children running up and down wards for hours on end . |
| 27 | I drove through a street market , up and down hills , in and out of alleyways , through tarpaper shacks . |
| 28 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 29 | Not surprisingly , the Emperor preferred rowing quietly on the lake to scrambling up and down rocks , though sometimes both sovereigns would organize excursions , taking their guests in carriages on more decorous visits to the surrounding countryside . |
| 30 | Many guests indeed complained not of ennui but of exhaustion brought on by accompanying Eugénie while she scampered up and down rocks , or by long walks and excursions in the area around the palace which took place most days after lunch . |