Example sentences of "[det] [adv prt] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was , it sent her flying ; one minute she was up , the next lying in an uncomfortable heap , half in , half out of a pile of brambles that was growing around the base of a tree in a haphazard , choking sort of way . |
| 2 | It was another Glory and it had been abandoned , half in and half out of a ditch . |
| 3 | He was half in and half out of the cloakroom , stripping off his ski-suit , jumping about on one leg with his other foot caught in the elasticated cuff . |
| 4 | Half in and half out of the cabin door , she watched the approach of three figures . |
| 5 | Clearing the gap in the reef , the patrol boat drove into a wave and leapt half out of the water like a giant grey killer whale . |
| 6 | The mouse jumped half out of the water and looked at her angrily . |
| 7 | Half in , half out of the water opposite me was a greyish mass . |
| 8 | " Lagoon " is a bit grand : it 's really just a big old swamp , surrounded by droopy trees with their roots half in and half out of the water . |
| 9 | He remained like that for a few seconds longer , while they tied his wrists to a pair of iron rings bolted into the wall , and then they let him go and left him dangling there — half in , half out of the river . |
| 10 | She adds ‘ Our children ( 20 and 18 ) are both at the stage of being half in and half out of the nest ! ’ |
| 11 | Changing a magazine in mid-air was a major act of skill and daring , which involved climbing half out of the cockpit while flying the plane with one 's knees clamped on the joystick ; all the time with the enemy possibly circling for the kill . |
| 12 | When Defries pulled herself over the projecting fragments of glass and into the cockpit , Daak was still half out of the pilot 's seat , staring at Ace 's back and her wind-whipped hair . |
| 13 | By swinging his legs he was at last able to make painful progress , so that eventually he was half in and half out of the building . |
| 14 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 15 | Jessica leaned half out of the window , waving at him frantically to be silent , her face contorted . |
| 16 | The alarm was raised when the train stopped half in and half out of the station , and its driver radioed to say there was fighting on board . |
| 17 | At a nearby door , half in the house and half out of the house , they found the body of her boyfriend , Jamie Saunders , who was 22 and who lived at the house with his mother . |
| 18 | I went down on hands and knees , half in and half out of the doorway , with an excuse ready of looking for a coin I 'd dropped . |
| 19 | What they saw by the further light of a bicycle lamp was a chamber about six feet square and the opening of two pipes , half in and half out of the water-level on opposite walls . |
| 20 | Then , half in , half out of the car , he suddenly became very still . |
| 21 | Sarella , half in and half out of the jeep , had frozen suddenly as her eyes met those of her host . |
| 22 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 23 | I wo , I would like to go back to the days of my youth when we at Hogmanay there was usually frost and and and ice , and er we used to celebrate it partly on skates and it was great fun when you skated perhaps a mile and a half out of the town , and er er had a lovely ice festival and then we skated back and we had |
| 24 | ‘ We took this out of a Warrior in Oxford Barracks this morning — they had been practising firing at multiple targets , using the power traverse , When suddenly the turret went out of control — It 's a good job they were n't live firing on the range or someone could have been killed . |
| 25 | More than 546,200 Panamanian people are living in ‘ extreme ’ poverty and another 461,100 in poverty — this out of a population of 2.4 million . |
| 26 | Like this is my opening routine , I got this out of a book actually , you come , okay ? |
| 27 | Okay then let's compare notes , let's get this out of the way . |
| 28 | ‘ Shall we go upstairs and get this out of the way ? ’ |
| 29 | We share costs , but the cost of living is very low in this out of the way corner of Greece . |
| 30 | Right well let's er let me get this out of the way so I do n't hand back , that 's all yours to take away all right ? |