Example sentences of "[conj] push [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally one or other of the girls left the path to go and pick a mushroom that she 'd seen half-concealed behind a root or stone , or pushing through the surface of the pine-needles . |
| 2 | The frequent reports of people being hustled , or pushed off the pavement , probably derived from the practice among working-class youths known as ‘ holding the street ’ . |
| 3 | Where such arguments did not fit in with the overarching themes of race , violence and disorder , and social deprivation they were either sidelined or pushed into the sub-clauses of official reports . |
| 4 | ‘ I think you 'll find that pushing to the front of the queue is rather frowned on , ’ an official disdainfully informs him . |
| 5 | It was quicker than pushing through the front door and round to the side again . |
| 6 | Of course , as every teacher knows , there are many exceptions — the children who test their skill as diagnosticians and facilitators and push to the limit their cheerful , generous , forgiving brisk optimism about the pupil . |
| 7 | When the backs of the person 's legs are against the toilet bowl or bed , arrange their clothing and push on the front of their hips to help them sit down . |
| 8 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 9 | and just pull and push on the bottom |
| 10 | Cut this piece to length and push into the two bends to mark the correct length to cut off the downpipe . |
| 11 | Fasten the two ends with sticky tape and push against the fold lines to make a fish shape . |
| 12 | Sometimes he had been able to fit the frames back and push in the lenses ; not this time . |
| 13 | But certainly he 'll be pushing and pushing at the front there and making runs to get in the back all night I 'm I 'm certain of that . |
| 14 | The boat was propelled either by ‘ legging ’ ) the crew lying on their backs or sides and pushing on the tunnel walls with their feet — or by ‘ shafting ’ — pushing with the boat shaft ( pole ) against the tunnel roof . |
| 15 | there , there , there be fighting and shoving and pushing for the power and then it says there that it will look as though the , the north king will take all over , all over the what , what spread all over the earth and then it says gradually he will go right back to his ho go home , gradually will be stepping back , right back to his home and there 's going to be no helper for him |
| 16 | He was breathing heavily and pushing into the room behind Sarella . |
| 17 | ‘ If Alain was murdered and pushed over the edge the way I figured , then it could easily have been torn off . |
| 18 | The Prosecution alleges that it was here , on a night in November two years ago that Pauline Leyshon and her boyfriend Ivor Stokle were bundled into a car which was then set alight and pushed over the edge of the hill . |
| 19 | There the court heard they were forced into a car which was set alight and pushed over the edge . |
| 20 | Both Corbett and Ranulf were dragged unceremoniously off their horses and pushed through the main door of the house and down a passageway which led into the main room or hall . |
| 21 | He had to get out before he spewed , and pushed through the crowd , jostling Jess who was on her way in . |
| 22 | He waded across , scrambled up the other side and pushed through the undergrowth on the edge of the plain . |
| 23 | At seven-thirty he got out of the car with a flashlight and pushed through the undergrowth to a nearby stream . |
| 24 | She crossed the floor , climbed the carpeted steps by the cloakroom , and pushed through the double-doors into the main entrance corridor . |
| 25 | She tore her eyes away from his and pushed through the crowd , wanting only to put a great distance between herself and Lucenzo . |
| 26 | She stopped the machine , took off her gloves and overalls , did a lot of washing and pushed through the swing doors into the empty Sabbath calm of the shabby corridor . |
| 27 | The smells grew worse , though still fortunately not totally identifiable ; they squeezed past donkeys moored to doorways and pushed through the flood of people . |
| 28 | One of the tentacles began to move up and pushed through the hole . |
| 29 | She twisted out of his grasp and pushed through the swing doors . |
| 30 | He led on the easy bits , followed and pushed on the worse sections . |