Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We see companies rethinking how they can manage product design , how they can help people communicate between different groups in a company , how they can eliminate printed information and let people see information electronically and browse it exactly the way they want , or how they can keep track of their customers in a better way . ’ |
| 2 | If society has the right to pass judgement , has it also the right to use the weapon of the law to enforce it ? |
| 3 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
| 6 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | So learning that a particular symbol on a computer keyboard , situated in a particular room , delivers a banana from a feeder , is really the same kind of mental activity as recognizing the shape of a banana plant in a forest and remembering where to find it again the next day . |
| 8 | When this government talks about safety nets for those in need , I tend to look six inches below ground level to find it often the G M B is the only safety net above the ground which leads me to my second word we do this because we care we care about our country our economy , and our people . |
| 9 | For my tuppence worth i agree with Triffic Brooking that it was n't a back-pass but Beaney should have wellied it up the pitch . |
| 10 | But they went and found it just the same . |
| 11 | I enjoyed Prime Minister because I found it much the most relaxed of the offices I held . |
| 12 | See twice the size , it wants twice say the it 's nine inch and you want it twice the size the canvas wants to be eighteen inch does n't it ? |
| 13 | You test it out the next morning is n't it interesting you remembered as proof of the pudding . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | When Mr. Mendez spoke to him you believed it all the more . |
| 16 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 17 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 18 | The the first question is this is this thing about nerves is n't it because that 's the first feeling you have when you got up get up here is and as said I 'm dry already and I have n't even been up there and done it yet the voice is dry and you know then you feel a bit shaky and all that sort of thing and why do we why do we feel nervous ? |
| 19 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 20 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
| 21 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
| 22 | Oh I put it down the other end . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was very tempting to just stay put but the longer we put it off the worse it would be . |
| 25 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 26 | But I thought we wanted to keep this a low profile bungalow and that 's pushing it up the same as the other one in Grey Lane went up . |
| 27 | ‘ Dump it down the John if you 're smart . ’ |
| 28 | Well alright , but can you , can you not get rid of a couple of the boxes and what 's this thing there ? well why do n't you tip it up the other way and give yourself a bit more room , tomorrow Deana what 's that , your dictionary ? |
| 29 | Volvo expects to produce 300 of those , which would give it roughly the same 60 per cent market share it enjoys in the heavy bus category after its takeover of Leyland Bus in 1988 . |
| 30 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |