Example sentences of "and [vb base] it [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've got to go to the loo in a minute anyway after I steal one of your cigarettes , notice the word cigarettes instead of the word fags oh I do n't know , I think I 'll go and sell my body , might make a couple of quid and leg it down the |
| 5 | Say they needed it at eight , they thought they might need it at eight o'clock and then turned out they did n't , because one body else came in the restaurant , then they 'd just stick that in the fridge over night , and put it out the next morning . |
| 6 | He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This means that you can use the Rovertrail in the usual way , at the foot of the ladder for your power drill , sander , etc ; but you can also hook the socket-ended trailing lead through your belt , and take it up the ladder with you to work higher up with power tools . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |
| 11 | I can put fax stuff to Tracey and have it back the next day , but I 've got to physically fetch it , that is the only disadvantage or arrange to get it picked up . |