Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet .
3 And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank .
4 Put them down the hole .
5 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 .
6 It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys
7 We 'll have to take them down the recycling .
8 Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt .
9 Well we had to drag them down the hall .
10 We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car .
11 And when and when erm dad got in a Land Rover round field it used to beat them down the field !
12 Then the fire died down and Isambard 's more timorous followers came hurtling after him , and by sheer weight swept their opponents before them down the hillside .
13 Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay
14 He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row .
15 The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat .
16 Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline .
17 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 .
18 He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did .
19 She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop .
20 That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up .
21 Lesley 's had a letter to say from them down the job place they ai n't got nothing .
22 Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden .
23 We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in .
24 Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers .
25 Did I marry Stuart because I thought he would n't let me down the way my father had ?
26 Can you just sign that for me down the bottom there ?
27 Like a piece of luggage , he picks me up and throws me , he does , throws me down the Pit ! ’
28 After I 'd persuaded Hawkbit here to join us , I was just starting to talk to a few more , when I found that Toadflax fellow had followed me down the run .
29 Your voice pursued me down the marble stairway :
30 ‘ He stopped me down the village . ’
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