Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consultant has explained that Tourette 's Syndrome is a rare and unfortunate condition , and he should fucking well know about those , he 's right off the Christmas tree , probably spent half his life sucking strange men 's cocks or taking it up the arsehole in a public loo in the Charing Cross Road . |
| 2 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 7 | ‘ The guy that was sober told him to get a grip and pulled him out the shop . |
| 8 | With a final gesture she put the key on the sill of the narrow window and pulled herself up the stone steps . |
| 9 | Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 12 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 13 | Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way |
| 14 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 15 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 16 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 17 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 18 | Ian shook himself free from his bunk , pulled on his flannels and swung himself up the companionway and on to the deck . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
| 22 | 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 ! ’ |
| 23 | Pour it in a glass and look at it , or a spoon but pour it out the bottle , hold your breath and Bob 's your uncle ! |
| 24 | I stole the father and gave Him back the son ! ’ |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 27 | He would probably have halted the advance and ordered me up the front . |
| 28 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 29 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 30 | I can put fax stuff to Tracey and have it back the next day , but I 've got to physically fetch it , that is the only disadvantage or arrange to get it picked up . |