Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [adv] the [noun] " 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 | Then The Sugargliders — their hair still glossy from the blood of Metallica , who tried to stop them coming in — stride across the shattered bar-room floor and pull their own heads off and ram them down The Rosaries ' throats . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required . |
| 7 | Every hermeneutic approach takes them as the alpha of understanding but not all make them also the omega . |
| 8 | And I do n't want to change you , I want you exactly the way you are . ’ |
| 9 | Send him back the books and the money — he 'll think I stole them ! ’ |
| 10 | reported it and they send him out the flats . |
| 11 | ‘ We see companies rethinking how they can manage product design , how they can help people communicate between different groups in a company , how they can eliminate printed information and let people see information electronically and browse it exactly the way they want , or how they can keep track of their customers in a better way . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Send it down the line . ’ |
| 15 | See twice the size , it wants twice say the it 's nine inch and you want it twice the size the canvas wants to be eighteen inch does n't it ? |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Males then show them where the nests are . |
| 18 | Put them off the scent . ’ |
| 19 | Put them down the hole . |
| 20 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 21 | Put me down the block ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It it 's er really put me off the track there , I 'm sorry I . |
| 24 | That 's why I put you down the end of the table so I would n't have to talk to you . |
| 25 | If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 29 | But I can show you , I can show you the eighth floor and show you where the gang where is the eighth floor ? |
| 30 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |