Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] it [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 8 | He picked up my suitcase and carried it up the last flight , putting it down outside my door and turning to me . |
| 9 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I lent him my air rifle and aimed it out the window and there was this car going by and he went and he smashed the back windscreen I was saying , You fucking dick . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window ! |
| 15 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |