Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pron] [adv prt] [art] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 Simply order them a couple of days in advance and pick them up the night before or on the day they are required .
5 ‘ When I had to send the Women to fetch you every step of the way , child — and pick you up every time you fell ?
6 You can buy them one day and bring them back the next
7 Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later .
8 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 .
9 Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window .
10 I laugh and push him up the last step .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 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 .
13 ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month .
14 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 . ’
15 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
16 A better approach is to adopt a serial approach and solve them over a number of stages .
17 You know , hold her hand and cheer her up a bit .
18 And you can look at it one way , and say , oh I 've got , I 've got two rows here with six in , and space them out a bit so , or give him that so he 's got sort of , two rows with six in , and you say , oh from where you 're looking at it , it 's six rows with two in .
19 your horn and cut him up a bit .
20 Forest-living Indians catch them and roast them over a fire so that the poison drips from their skins .
21 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 ! ’
22 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 .
23 Chop the vegetables and heat them over a low flame .
24 Now we fasten pinecones to the dahlia sticks and shake them out every few days .
25 It 's just the pocket really let's turn you round a bit see if it hurts it 's just the way it is I 'm afraid see if we can open it up and spread it out a bit .
26 I peel off my clothes , and put them over a low branch .
27 If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block .
28 Stok took off his evening-dress jacket and put it over a hanger that was lying on my open suitcase .
29 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 .
30 Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form .
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