Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
| 2 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
| 3 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 4 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 5 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 6 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 7 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 8 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 9 | Out of all the bands the NME posse catches at the CMJ , RATM are by far the most brilliantly relevant : the first to grab political issues by the scruff of the neck and ram them down the toilet pan . |
| 10 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 11 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 12 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 13 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 14 | ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe . |
| 15 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 16 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 17 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 18 | I 've got to go to the loo in a minute anyway after I steal one of your cigarettes , notice the word cigarettes instead of the word fags oh I do n't know , I think I 'll go and sell my body , might make a couple of quid and leg it down the |
| 19 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 20 | If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block . |
| 21 | He gave a brief nod , and swung himself down the companionway . |
| 22 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 23 | The second policeman managed to get a shot off in panic , but before he could take aim properly , one of the skinheads smashed his shoulder with a baseball bat and knocked him down the aisle steps . |
| 24 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 25 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |
| 26 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 27 | After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule . |
| 28 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 29 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 30 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |