Example sentences of "[verb] it down the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
| 5 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
| 6 | If it was in a medicine bottle they would pour it down the sink ! |
| 7 | Well you 're gon na have to put the wire down , run it down the bottom |
| 8 | and you wan na run it down the back , Deana take the wire down the back of all your books on the shelf |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Pour it down the sink . ’ |
| 20 | Think he 'd take it down the bottom would n't you ? |
| 21 | you can take it down the tip , |
| 22 | After long deliberation , they settled on a dark bottle-green , and the elderly assistant measured off the required length , pulling yards of cloth from the bale and running it down the length of the counter , measuring it against a fixed brass rule . |
| 23 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 24 | Handlers guided it down the ramp with ropes and then let it wander away rather unsteadily . |
| 25 | With your other hand , unroll it down the length of his penis to the base . |
| 26 | Well I mean , they might sell it down the shop but I never heard of it . |
| 27 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 28 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 29 | When she brought it down the hospital she said here you are nan er mum she said , nan she said it 's a present for you she said , so we did laugh . |
| 30 | I took it down the jeweller 's , nine hundred and forty five pounds . |