Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] and [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 2 | A long thin red snake was moving slowly in and out of the holes . |
| 3 | All of a sudden thousands of people cheered as red devils skied crazily in and out of precession and a horse-drawn sledge appeared magically through the whirling snow . |
| 4 | I was obliged during the course of that first morning to go constantly in and out of the room , and so was unable to follow the proceedings at all fully . |
| 5 | At one end is an opening called the anus , though the term is not completely appropriate for the animal uses it not only for excretion but for breathing as well , sucking water gently in and out over tubules just inside the body . |
| 6 | If a field has a wooden hut where teams change into their kit you will certainly find plenty of lost coins around it ; money drops from pockets when players carry their clothes carelessly in and out of the hut . |
| 7 | In emergency the person in the seat next to you may be allowed to indicate ‘ slow down ’ by moving his straight right arm gently up and down in front of him ( not in front of you ! ) ; then you will find a place to pull in and stop . |
| 8 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 9 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |
| 10 | Currency exchange negotiations for everyone on the ‘ open ’ market were conducted between the team 's administrator , John Brown , and the hotel 's elderly porter in a lift that went constantly up and down to the top floor until they were concluded . |
| 11 | She has been so strange , a sullen , lumpy girl , given to peering in the mirror and walking despondently in and out of empty rooms , scorning experiences and emotions . |
| 12 | Charlotte and Luke had managed school perfectly well , had made friends , had slipped effortlessly in and out of all the required fads and fashions . |
| 13 | Urban development does not , unfortunately , keep itself within strict chronological order , so that a geographically direct descent of the Royal Mile skips disconcertingly in and out of a far from direct historical sequence . |
| 14 | Knead comfortably up and down from side to side , then knead the sides of the waist . |
| 15 | ‘ Look there , ’ he said , pointing to where the ‘ gay ’ girls of Station Road shivered , stamped their feet , and walked morosely up and down beneath the flaring gas . |
| 16 | Stars dusted the sky but it was an attacker 's moon which slipped treacherously in and out of the clouds . |
| 17 | Quickly in and out of the sitting-room she slid three hundred pounds from out of her sleeping-bag , not wanting Philip to know how much was there — but only because she did not want anyone to know . |
| 18 | We were always in and out of each other 's houses . " |
| 19 | I went quickly out and up to my room . |
| 20 | The hips at impact have started to turn towards the target , but the right shoulder is still back and out of the way . |
| 21 | Her eyelashes swept slowly up and down like bellows , causing a small breeze to ruffle Jarrett 's hair . |
| 22 | It was Paula 's job to show samples , parading slowly up and down in front of the clients as they sat on the elegant spindle-leg chairs taking in every detail of the garments with a critical and practised eye . |
| 23 | After that , it was straight on and up to the hill pass . |
| 24 | He drove her carefully in and out of the busy Saturday morning traffic and wondered idly how he was going to explain about her to his mother , without saying where he got the money from . |
| 25 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 26 | These are ideal for a wide range of interests , both in and out of doors . |
| 27 | The study concludes that ‘ teasing of disabled children does occur both in and out of school … older pupils and those in integrated schooling are particularly likely to come across such behaviour . ’ |
| 28 | In the chapters which follow , I will attempt to offer a more satisfying and , hopefully , iconoclastic alternative ; satisfying because it will place the explanatory emphasis on definite social processes which perpetuate the invidious position of blacks both in and out of sport ; and iconoclastic because it will at least go some way towards smashing the outdated image of the black man as possessing natural physical abilities that are determined , in the last instance , by his race . |
| 29 | The short course editions maintain the same teaching approach as Fast Forward , aiming to maximize results both in and out of the classroom . |
| 30 | Mathematics is a very important and interesting subject for study both in and out of school . |