Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is still used for solvent extraction procedures such as extracting drugs to put them down a chromatography column , ‘ but a lot of people have been replacing it because of its carcinogenicity ’ . |
| 32 | We used to chase them down a narrow valley with a sheer cliff-wall at the end . ’ |
| 33 | But then , if a lot of rabbits were afraid of some newcomers and wanted to deceive them — get them down a hole and attack them — they 'd start — would n't they ? — by sending someone who was plausible . |
| 34 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 35 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 36 | He 's toned them down a hell of a lot . |
| 37 | That 's right , so we work them down a bit . |
| 38 | No , take them down a bit |
| 39 | I 'll just file them down a bit . |
| 40 | So , in other words , you can push them down a bit . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Throw them down the bloody banisters and then lock them up . |
| 46 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 47 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 48 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 49 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 57 | Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline . |
| 58 | We 'll have to take them down the recycling . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |