Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 2 | However , when you lay them down the first card is laid on the M of mutus and the second on the m of nomen . |
| 3 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 4 | He kicked it open and flung me down the three steps into the street . |
| 5 | Melt into the Jungle and no-one sees them again until Vic 's researchers track them down a year ago . |
| 6 | Then , one afternoon , Didier led me down the rue de Fleuve to the cemetery . |
| 7 | He led me down the hallway and into the communal kitchen . |
| 8 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So I stuffed them down the waste-disposal unit . |
| 11 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 12 | Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway : |
| 13 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |
| 14 | ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’ |
| 15 | No , the ones who get me are the purposeful ones who are out to pull you down a peg or two when you were quite happy with the peg you were on . |
| 16 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 17 | The gardener , Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke and I pursued him down the garden and into the bluebell wood . |
| 18 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 19 | ‘ It 's been disappointing that sometimes his emotional tension has dropped him down the placings . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
| 22 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 23 | I 've got to go to the loo in a minute anyway after I steal one of your cigarettes , notice the word cigarettes instead of the word fags oh I do n't know , I think I 'll go and sell my body , might make a couple of quid and leg it down the |
| 24 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 25 | But some of my friends would never tell their brothers a thing like that ; their brothers put them down a lot . |
| 26 | Put them down the hole . |
| 27 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 28 | Put me down the block ? |
| 29 | ‘ Let me down a bit more ! ’ |
| 30 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |