Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 2 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 5 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 6 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 7 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 10 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 11 | If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block . |
| 12 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By the time we reached Amsterdam the man was in a frenzy of preparedness and anxiety , and followed me down the platform with his rifle in my back . |
| 15 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 18 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 19 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Your mom 's gone and thrown her down the incinerator . |
| 22 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |
| 27 | bombs beside the 3″ mortar , he picked one up and slid it down the barrel of the mortar . |