Example sentences of "and [verb] it [adv prt] the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 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 corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 10 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 11 | But if the flag is at all close to the top of the bank , look once again at getting the ball down on the ground as quickly as possible and running it up the bank . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window ! |
| 14 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Relieved , we leapt out of our sinking craft and dragged it up the beach to the waiting clothes- stand in the sand . |
| 20 | This means that you can use the Rovertrail in the usual way , at the foot of the ladder for your power drill , sander , etc ; but you can also hook the socket-ended trailing lead through your belt , and take it up the ladder with you to work higher up with power tools . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |
| 23 | bombs beside the 3″ mortar , he picked one up and slid it down the barrel of the mortar . |