Example sentences of "[vb past] it down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Shales picked up one of the newspapers in front of him and pitched it down the table in Dowd 's direction . |
| 4 | Carefully took it off me and washed it himself cos last time I lost it down the plughole you know ? |
| 5 | Handlers guided it down the ramp with ropes and then let it wander away rather unsteadily . |
| 6 | People who were doing nothing in particular took up the cry and chanted it down the block , like priests in some strange pagan mass : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I took it down the jeweller 's , nine hundred and forty five pounds . |
| 9 | She said oh could have took it down the launderette and dried for you . |
| 10 | It bore the address of the garage also , and he relayed it down the phone to Sam . |
| 11 | The corpse 's bracelet was beginning to squeal ; Fox dragged it off and flung it down the stairwell ; she did n't hear it land . |
| 12 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 13 | Riven 's slung arm hampered him , and he pulled the sling off irritably and stuffed it down the front of his jerkin , moving his arm in circles . |
| 14 | Sally took the strip of paper and stuffed it down the front of her skirt . |
| 15 | A previous user of the review machine had tried to send some faxes which never made it down the wire . |
| 16 | Sometime after , pleasantly exhausted , I collected my horse from the stable , saddled it and led it down the causeway out of the manor gate . |
| 17 | During June 1843 , Thomas , William and Adam Barrow , Thomas Grigg , James Bell , John Speddy and the Adventurers ' Team , carted a total of 606 tons 17 cwt. 3 qrs. @ 2/4 per ton down to the quay from where Benjamin Dixon and his assistants boated it down the lake at 10d. a ton . |
| 18 | I 'd like my pink carpet up this year , cos after we had it down the electricity come and it 's a bit bobbly this part , once you 've got your |
| 19 | He dropped it and I kicked it down the alley . |
| 20 | bombs beside the 3″ mortar , he picked one up and slid it down the barrel of the mortar . |