Example sentences of "dropped it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he lowered the weapon and dropped it onto the bed beside him , then fumbled in the drawer again for the box of ammunition . |
| 2 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
| 3 | He waved out the match , gazed at it thoughtfully for a moment , dropped it into the ashtray and then looked at Herr Nordern . |
| 4 | Kirov held it by one comer , wiped it with his sleeve , and dropped it into the post box . |
| 5 | Monks tied the locket to a heavy weight and dropped it into the water . |
| 6 | I dried off the needle and dropped it into the metal box where I carried my suture materials , scalpels and blades . |
| 7 | She brought hot water and watched as he unwrapped a sachet and dropped it into the cup . |
| 8 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 9 | She screwed up the letter and dropped it into the kitchen bin . |
| 10 | Sealing an envelope , she dropped it into the basket of outgoing mail . |
| 11 | And one day I dro I dropped it down the the drain as I went into the shop . |
| 12 | She carried a long pole which was draped with hanks of haigus wool , and she dropped it across the rails of the staging , then turned back into the gloom of the shop again . |
| 13 | I picked up the jar which was slippery on the outside from dripped paint and , screwing its lid on , dropped it with the brush into a plastic bag before stowing it again in my pouch . |
| 14 | She examined it for a moment , then squeezed it between thumb and fingernail and dropped it on the floor . |
| 15 | Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor . |
| 16 | He dropped it on the floor and Jess kicked it out of the way . |
| 17 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 18 | Charlotte put it in Emily 's hands , but after a moment Emily dropped it on the floor . |
| 19 | Helen picked it out and dropped it on the floor ; beneath was a tangle of string . |
| 20 | Silently he took the notebook from her nerveless fingers and dropped it on the floor . |
| 21 | Corbett undid his cloak and dropped it on the ground . |
| 22 | Absently Luke took the carnation from his button-hole and dropped it on the bookshelves . |
| 23 | She only kept her wedding ring because one of the robbers dropped it on the way out . |
| 24 | There is times I 've casually picked it up , dropped it on the floor and forgotten to pick it up for a while because I 'm on the phone and sometimes it is quite loud in my ear . |
| 25 | So it would start the timing mechanism running at the moment it dropped it over the side . |
| 26 | Taking off her jacket , she dropped it over the back of a chair and picked distastefully at the damp folds of her burgundy skirt . |
| 27 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 28 | However , we had in the aircraft a rather antiquated device ( certainly World War I ) of a message bag with a coloured streamer and I put a message in the bag and I dropped it near the control tower . |
| 29 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 30 | He detached it , and dropped it in the street . |