Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adv] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At times you may feel a bit down or out of touch with those around you , however , one matter needs your attention and a new business venture is also worth thinking about things decorating or maintenance as necessary , a telephone call will bring surprising news . |
| 2 | It is , in fact , an amphibian , which can live in or out of water . |
| 3 | I 've always been the type of guy who 'll dig into every note regardless of whether that note might be right or wrong or in or out of tune . |
| 4 | It has taken present-day governments some time to understand that a universal benefit is a bulwark against the disincentive effects of a largely means-tested system , and that , given that the benefit is paid irrespective of whether the household head is in or out of work but is nevertheless deducted from supplementary benefit , it helps maintain a difference between income in paid work and income on the dole . |
| 5 | Any time Thresher staff have a problem in or out of work , they can call an outside consultancy , focus . |
| 6 | He claims that those decent basic provisions for individual employees , whether they are in or out of trade unions , would inhibit competitiveness . |
| 7 | Let him be in or out of prison , he will get nothing of mine . |
| 8 | Sideboards were prized ( if you could grow them ) & real mutton chops appeared & looked very mean — although they were never in or out of fashion as such — just optional all the way through . |
| 9 | Discuss in or out of role — with the results of the discussion later fed back into the whole group . |
| 10 | Instead of performing the whole of their improvisation for the others , one child can report back on what has happened — either in or out of role . |
| 11 | The rain wash-off into the ravine had flushed the goodness out of the soil , so that instead of grass , there was a strip of thin scrub and stunted trees . |
| 12 | If we set a man to paint , he uses an instinctive faculty of ‘ forming ’ , so that out of chaos something communicative emerges . |
| 13 | Temperatures ran high inside and out of parliament . |
| 14 | Next time she dared look back , the guard in her niche was below and out of sight but there was another just above . |
| 15 | Seconds later Talalayev found himself in another inviting position but this time sent the ball skywards and out of danger . |
| 16 | Slink in and out of bidding |
| 17 | For 13 hours I lay shivering in my inadequate bag , drifting in and out of sleep . |
| 18 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 19 | Julia 's pain seemed to have left her , and she lay seeming to drift in and out of sleep or unconsciousness , Anne could never be sure which , as she sat beside her , wiping her face , or tried to feed her with beef tea from a feeding cup . |
| 20 | Her mind swam in and out of sleep and the fire burned lower . |
| 21 | Folly drifted in and out of sleep , waking to find Luke 's hand upon her breast and his eyes open , watching her . |
| 22 | As often as he could , Edward dozed in and out of sleep and thought of sex . |
| 23 | The four of us drifted in and out of sleep for a further few hours , then , miraculously , at about 4 pm , the fog lifted and the rain ceased . |
| 24 | Above which , an embroidery of light flickered in and out of existence , stitching hints of a sampler spelling out death . |
| 25 | Gobbets seemed to wink in and out of existence . |
| 26 | Like forms that briefly flicker in and out of existence in the heart of a flame , the worshippers danced to a staccato rhythm , their bodies jerking sharply yet smoothly in the infernal light of the crackling fires . |
| 27 | Like the novel we read , Gael 's novel of the same name is a ‘ philosophic fantasy ’ ( 9 ) , but it appears to be even less realistic than its real-life double ; it is described as a disquisition on the nature of reality with characters that flit in and out of existence . |
| 28 | Patrick Meurdesoif , 42 , was stopped after weaving in and out of rush hour traffic in his 38-ton tanker on the M6 near West Bromwich , West Midlands , town magistrates heard . |
| 29 | A more common reason for brittle nails is repeated injury caused by heavy work or , for example , if your hands are in and out of water a lot . |
| 30 | up and down and in and out of state |