Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] [pron] down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 4 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 5 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! ’ |
| 9 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 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 | She turned , wrenched open the door and hurled herself down the spiral staircase , pushing blindly through the group below , tears streaming down her face . |
| 12 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 13 | In May of last year the organisers signed 30 bands and hired a 100 seat ship and floated it down the Volga River , the largest in European Russia , holding 10 open-air concerts in big cities along the way . |
| 14 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 15 | Spid I remember when me and my Mum had to catch one in a fishing net and throw it down the toilet cos my Dad were n't there and it was about that big ! |
| 16 | Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor . |
| 17 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 18 | The headlights of another car swung across the central reservation and followed him down the Friedrich Engels Strasse . |