Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 2 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 3 | Then she grabbed a handful of ice cubes from a nearby wine cooler and stuffed them down the front of her partner 's trousers . |
| 4 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 5 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock suggested that in that case someone down the chain of distribution who suffers economic loss ( i.e. because he has to pay out damages for breach of contract ) , might well be able to claim indemnity direct from the negligent manufacturer under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson . |
| 6 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 7 | That 's why I put you down the end of the table so I would n't have to talk to you . |
| 8 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 9 | Of course at school they always tell you that you should do a secretarial course , which was absolutely dreadful , and they put you off the idea of a career in the theatre just as much as they can . |
| 10 | Have I put you off the idea of knitting for profit ? |
| 11 | The strangeness of this music puts you off the scent of its skillfulness , which is a shame in a way , but there 's absolutely no way it is unintentional . |
| 12 | The strangeness of this music puts you off the scent of its skillfulness , which is a shame in a way , but there 's absolutely no way it is unintentional . |
| 13 | You might make sales , you 'll certainly make contacts and it probably wo n't put you off the world of TV forever . |
| 14 | And I was only one out the family of nine that volunteered to go and none of me brothers or none of them that was all keen on the sea , they did not seem to want to go . |
| 15 | actually I tend to waste money cos I thought I 'd sit here and moan about taking them out the cost of it , but then I considered spending a hundred pound on a bed that he probably does n't even need , it 's daft really in n it ? |
| 16 | She could n't face speaking to him down the wires of a telephone again , not after yesterday , and , besides , he might have cancelled their arrangement and she had n't wanted that . |
| 17 | Anna moved towards the bus steps and saw the driver looking behind him down the length of the bus , waiting . |
| 18 | Instead , he half lifted her down the rest of the stairs meaning to frogmarch her towards the door that led to the yard . |
| 19 | He tried to prolong the date , leading her down the streets of the old part of town and then uphill to the courtyard of an old cloister , teeming with tourists . |
| 20 | When Johnson , as we know he did , dipped into Boswell 's Hebrides Journal , its tone can not have put him off the notion of Boswell writing a Life . |
| 21 | I put him off the idea of going shopping with me . |
| 22 | Initially they both showed signs of running a mile and denying all knowledge , but by cunningly playing on their male pride , their desire to believe they were ‘ a better man ’ than their rival , she made each one mad with jealousy of the other , and finally had her pick of which she preferred , leading him up the aisle of the Methodist Chapel well before the bulge began to show . |
| 23 | K ! sdra squinted at him up the length of the sword . |
| 24 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 25 | Luke might not , but Folly did , and the memory gave her back the edge of anger . |
| 26 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Quick as a thief , Garvey raised it to his collar and was about to drop it down the inside of his shirt when the Mason took a hold of his collar from behind and twisted it . |
| 29 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |
| 30 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |