Example sentences of "[verb] it [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
| 7 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
| 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 | So I hope to sort it out the Lenten appeal well |
| 11 | Flagwavers , flag-wearers and flag-burners — from JIMI HENDRIX and THE NICE , through THE DOORS and THE WHO , to SONIC YOUTH and THE MANICS , they 've all run it up the flagpole to see who salutes . |
| 12 | Well you 're gon na have to put the wire down , run it down the bottom |
| 13 | Why is that Care Bear down there , has she had it out the bath ? |
| 14 | Summat 's moving on the floor and I sort of watch it out the corner of my eye . |
| 15 | ‘ Send me a Capex and I 'll run it up the flagpole . ’ |
| 16 | and you wan na run it down the back , Deana take the wire down the back of all your books on the shelf |
| 17 | I can stick it up the leg of my drawers . ’ |
| 18 | Sup it out the saucer . |
| 19 | You could actually work it out the longhand way , the way that we 've described it Yeah I think you 'll find that that 's meant to be X and X |
| 20 | Yeah , I 'd , I 'll have to blank it out the part when I 'm talking about passwords and things as well . |
| 21 | And he goes to me , he goes to me so have you thought about my , my suggestion of pottery , I went yeah , and I threw it out the window . |
| 22 | And then you 've got it back the way it was . |
| 23 | Well I ai n't got it out the box yet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In fact if you add it up the moon can go round the earth thirteen times in a year . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Sadly , most soccer sims just involve hoofing it up the pitch and loads of chasing aimlessly after the ball . |
| 30 | 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 . |