Example sentences of "[vb base] 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 | Well you 're gon na have to put the wire down , run it down the bottom |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pour it down the sink . ’ |
| 9 | With your other hand , unroll it down the length of his penis to the base . |
| 10 | ‘ You can get a man inside it , and they 'll tie a heavy stone to the King 's body and push it down the pipe . |
| 11 | He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff . |
| 12 | Spid I remember when me and my Mum had to catch one in a fishing net and throw it down the toilet cos my Dad were n't there and it was about that big ! |
| 13 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |
| 14 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 15 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |