Example sentences of "[verb] it down the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
| 5 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
| 6 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
| 7 | And instead , instead of telling the woman I I pretended to eat it could n't finish it I put it down the lift shaft . |
| 8 | ‘ Dump it down the John if you 're smart . ’ |
| 9 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 10 | Well you 're gon na have to put the wire down , run it down the bottom |
| 11 | and you wan na run it down the back , Deana take the wire down the back of all your books on the shelf |
| 12 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 13 | And it hu go And it was there and it was left all night , and next day erm the man came back again and he cut it down the back with a big saw , and divided it up and then it was taken to the house where it was er up and then salted in a big barrel . |
| 14 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 15 | If you have a lot of different dates to enter , either use a keystroke macro — something that I will cover in a future Step-by-Step ( but see ‘ Further Reading ’ ) or just enter the same date , say @DATEVALUE ( ’ 1-Jan-90 ’ ) in the first cell , copy it down the column for as many rows as you expect to need and then edit it ( using F2 ) to enter the real dates . |
| 16 | Yeah , I 'll tell you what I did if I if that 's ladder 's out , I 'd drop it down the back of somewhere . |
| 17 | yeah , erm , I do n't quite know what to do about this , this is , I 've taken some stuff out , if I can slide it down the |
| 18 | Then it was gone ; and Bigwig 's fur was blowing in the whack of wind that followed it down the hedges . |
| 19 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 20 | If for instance erm Fred Bloggs at the end of the office is sick on Friday he turns off his P C at lunchtime and goes home and we do the software upgrade during the afternoon on Friday , then his P C wo n't get the upgrade to the software because we 're sending it down the network . |
| 21 | She showed Léonie how to roll up the used towel in a paper bag , smuggle it down the backstairs into the kitchen , bury it in the red heart of the range . |
| 22 | The most hair-raising operation at Honister was not digging the slate , but getting it down the fells to sheds where the material was riven and dressed for transportation by packhorse to ports and river barges . |
| 23 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 24 | When you have typed in your work , move the cursor back to the very beginning and use it to guide your eyes by moving it down the screen at the left-hand margin as you check each line . |
| 25 | I miss my painting , and hope that by keeping still it will , like some small exotic animal , find its way back tome without my attempting to chase it down the byways of my exhausted creativity . |
| 26 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 27 | Pour it down the drains if necessary . |
| 28 | Pour it down the sink . ’ |
| 29 | Think he 'd take it down the bottom would n't you ? |
| 30 | you can take it down the tip , |