Example sentences of "[pers pn] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
| 2 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 3 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 4 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 5 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 6 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 7 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 8 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 9 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 13 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 14 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 15 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 16 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 17 | Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline . |
| 18 | We 'll have to take them down the recycling . |
| 19 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 20 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 21 | So they unharnessed the wagons , left them down the Barking road and brought the horses to the smithy . |
| 22 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 23 | That eventually took them down the wide , steep main street of a small town , then the road narrowed , crossed an old stone bridge , and began to climb , leaving behind the houses , the church with its tall , graceful steeple , and the half-timbered buildings . |
| 24 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 25 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 26 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 27 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 28 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 29 | ‘ He went into the bend with Glengar Ranger , who took him out a bit and the winner got on the inside of them down the back straight . |
| 30 | Then the fire died down and Isambard 's more timorous followers came hurtling after him , and by sheer weight swept their opponents before them down the hillside . |