Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was shown the furniture that Tom had made for his marital home — all of the drawers with dovetails , sliding in and out without effort . |
| 2 | Try offering a titbit , or a small quantity of nuts in your hand as the mare goes in and out at shoulder height . |
| 3 | Make-up girls fluttered in and out with powder puffs . |
| 4 | At breakfast Lili for some reason spoke of fidelity , and I noted my mother as she went in and out with bread and boiling water , looking at her , not with the disapproval she reserved for me but with half-amused incredulity . |
| 5 | He said they are a nuisance sometimes keep coming in and out for stuff but he said that 's childlike . |
| 6 | Slink in and out of bidding |
| 7 | For 13 hours I lay shivering in my inadequate bag , drifting in and out of sleep . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Her mind swam in and out of sleep and the fire burned lower . |
| 11 | Folly drifted in and out of sleep , waking to find Luke 's hand upon her breast and his eyes open , watching her . |
| 12 | As often as he could , Edward dozed in and out of sleep and thought of sex . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Above which , an embroidery of light flickered in and out of existence , stitching hints of a sampler spelling out death . |
| 15 | Gobbets seemed to wink in and out of existence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | up and down and in and out of state |
| 21 | Governing bodies will be all too aware of the danger that the image presented by their pupils may be negative rather than positive and do their best to see that high standards of behaviour are maintained in and out of school . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | Mathematics is a very important and interesting subject for study both in and out of school . |
| 24 | The children 's panel hearing which followed the assessment period concentrated on Tony 's brushes with authority both in and out of school and his learning difficulties . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , a true anti-sexist curriculum is one that encourages creative and political resistance — both in and out of school . |
| 26 | With experience gained in using the microcomputer both in and out of school , the school librarian should , before presenting the report , be confident enough in using the microcomputer to be able to demonstrate its uses and suggest potential uses to staff such as the school 's Head of Resources . |
| 27 | The Schools Curriculum Awards are to go to Egglescliffe Secondary School , Bishopsgarth Secondary School in Stockton , Kirkleatham Hall School near Redcar and Easterside Primary School in Middlesbrough for establishing broad and balanced curriculums with activities both in and out of school . |
| 28 | so that pupils can lead lives and make decisions , both in and out of school , that are personally satisfying and socially constructive ; |
| 29 | thirtysomething continually moves the viewer ( particularly , it has to be said , the male , white , middle-class viewer of a certain age ) in and out of identification with characters she-and-particularly-he would rather not be , and in and out of dilemmas she-and-particularly-he would rather not recognize . |
| 30 | D. H. You have said that your family moved in and out of illness : did this give you the position to turn breast cancer and person-centred health issues into political photography ? |