Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv prt] [art] [noun] " 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 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 .
4 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
5 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 .
6 Continually fighting in and out the dug-out , bickering over team selection and a 1954 Ford Popular , the Mentle/Pybus partnership was completely unworkable .
7 Yeah , well they 'd be in and out the yard and everywhere I 'd , wherever they used to be I do n't know .
8 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
9 People were coming in and out the shadows , like telling his mum to cuddle up to go everything .
10 You can successfully use plants in all situations , allowing them to grow down and up the slope and trail over pergolas , trellis and fences .
11 Quakers were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat-trick .
12 Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick .
13 Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes .
14 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 .
15 An absolute torrent of them comes pouring through and down the junk-chute .
16 And more of the calories that go into your mouth will , to put it bluntly , go straight through and down the lavatory .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface .
20 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 .
21 So I removed a rubber-handled wrench from the tool kit — a souvenir of a summer working on rich people 's yachts in southern Ireland — and weighed it up and down a couple of times .
22 ‘ Drive up and down a couple of times , check the area . ’
23 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 .
24 He stamped up and down a bit , waiting for Miss Harker to return .
25 ‘ I make costumes myself , ’ she told him eagerly , eyeing up and down a Harlequin who 'd appeared beside her .
26 For example , in the first left-hand chord , the top part moves up and down a semitone , while the bottom two parts do the opposite .
27 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 .
28 The switching takes place up and down a hierarchy of abstraction and generality .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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