Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We pick them up , ’ the Skull was saying , ‘ they 're guys with no links , like on the pier or down in the meat streets , they 're always suckers for a few lines and a limousine . |
| 2 | Everyone else is out , or down in the kitchen ; the children are in bed . |
| 3 | You 've got until nine o'clock tomorrow morning to have route round the attic or down in the cellar to see if you 've got a small fortune waiting to be discovered . |
| 4 | The non-white population is young ; in 1985–7 , 35% were aged under 16 and 18% aged 45 or over ( compared with 20% under 16 and 36% 45 or over in the population as a whole ) ( OPCS , 1988 , p. 31 , Table 3 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps up in the or up in the mountain . |
| 6 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
| 7 | Another imaginative gesture was the gift of 6 pairs of sturdy , warm mittens , for those who had to work with rusty iron trestles or out in the cold . |
| 8 | Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street . |
| 9 | Or out in the street playing out the way . |
| 10 | Then abruptly I am back in real time , bobbing up and down in the river , powerless against its current . |
| 11 | After supper I walked up and down in the corridor for a bit . |
| 12 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 13 | From the pilot 's seat one gets an unusual view , through the ( intentional ) hole in the rocker cover , of the valves going up and down in the port cylinder . |
| 14 | You could have a lovely time bouncing up and down in the pulpit , screaming hell fire . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , your turn , your turn , ’ chorused the other two shrilly , bobbing up and down in the bed . |
| 16 | The vicar paced behind , holding his prayer book , his hair floating up and down in the draught from the door . |
| 17 | The burn was swollen , the sheep in question bobbing up and down in the middle , apparently held there by something under the water . |
| 18 | He heard her whisking and wailing on her way , and he bent down and laid the cock-feather on the stone , and behold with a heavy groaning and grinding the huge stone swung up in the air and down in the earth , as though on a pivot or balance , disturbing waves of soil and heather like thick sea-water , and showing a dark , dank passage under the heather-roots and the knotty roots of the gorse . |
| 19 | The box shows the current colour , containing the figure 1 , will adjust to the shade as you move the bars up and down in the paint pot . |
| 20 | People slept in shelters and down in the Underground Stations . |
| 21 | ( ii ) Pipette embryos gently up and down in the solution and observe them under the microscope . |
| 22 | He explained that the lager was manufactured by the Danes , an ancient seafaring people , to be drunk straight out of the can , so that the bubbles would move straight up and down in the stomach to counteract the sideways rocking movement of the boat . |
| 23 | The foliage was achieved by allowing the cutter to run up and down in the timber . |
| 24 | And down in the mouth . |
| 25 | She was pacing up and down in the house , was hostile to other family members and was shouting at voices that she ( and no-one else ) heard . |
| 26 | ‘ When they shake it up and down in the test-tube , it mixes it up like inside you does n't it ? ’ |
| 27 | The crowds waved and cheered him on , the boats bobbing up and down in the estuary . |
| 28 | The silver-plated frame winked at him as it turned over and over in the air . |
| 29 | Suddenly he threw himself down on the ground and rolled over and over in the dust . |
| 30 | The proportion of men aged 70 and over in the labour force has more than halved from 11 per cent to 5 per cent in the same time period . |