Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 2 | Go bring me back the drink and get me a Coke . |
| 3 | If you 've got a pot or tray of seedlings , prick them out the moment you can handle them — holding them by a seed leaf , never a crushable stem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
| 8 | Well , let me tell you , ’ she flung at him acidly , ‘ you 're a bygone species , you 're on your way out , and if you do n't turn that wheel and head us back the way we came I 'll see you in gaol for this faster than you can say pieces of eight . ’ |
| 9 | Put them off the scent . ’ |
| 10 | Put them down the hole . |
| 11 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 12 | Put me down the block ? |
| 13 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 14 | It it 's er really put me off the track there , I 'm sorry I . |
| 15 | That 's why I put you down the end of the table so I would n't have to talk to you . |
| 16 | If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Let none of these warnings and precautions put you off the adventure and excitement of collecting in this field if you have an inclination that way . |
| 19 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 20 | When she 'd finished she got her bag and anorak , checking that she had enough in her purse for bus fare , and let herself out the kitchen door . |
| 21 | So I think they let her out the day after . |
| 22 | Who let her out the zoo ? |
| 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 | And , or put it down the cellar in the |
| 25 | or put it down the cellar , you see , out the way . |
| 26 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 27 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 28 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 29 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 30 | I know what , I 'll swop that for a pound coin , yeah , and you give me back the pound coin and plus that fifty P , yeah ? |