Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] [adv prt] the " 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 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I laugh and push him up the last step . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . ’ |
12 | 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 |
13 | 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 ! ’ |
14 | If there 's a fight , they tie your hands , pull your head sideways and put you down the block . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | We will encourage school to invest in sports facilities and open them up the local community . |
17 | And give us back the pride and the credibility that we once took for granted as trade unionists but we allowed to slip away from us , and make us a force to be reckoned with , and send this government a message , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to tell us how to run the G M B , we 'll never allow anyone at Westminster to prevent us from protecting our brothers and sisters and we 'll no never ever allow anyone at Westminster to defeat the trade union movement . |
18 | and run them up the strips . |
19 | Here are , race that fucking whore and get her out the bloody way |
20 | He goes I pick it up in a bag and chuck it out the window ! |
21 | A London consortium took over Springfield Park last week , installed businessman Michael Morris on the board and issued specific instructions to Chief Executive Brian Hamilton : ‘ Get a few results and move us up the Second Division table . ’ |
22 | His instinct was to lift her up and carry her down the hillside to the village . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I glance into my glass and hand her back the J ; her eyes close as she draws on it and I put my lips to my glass , slipping that sucked-on sliver of ice into my own mouth and rolling it around there , pretending it 's her tongue . |
25 | Shall I hire a gondola and take you up the Grand Canal to the sound of trumpets ? ’ |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Kisling was livid , and with the help of some friends managed to grab the sculptor and throw him down the stairwell from the seventh floor . |
28 | Nor could you just shut your eyes and throw them down the hatch ; because the whole pleasure of a chicken 's foot would come from sucking and nibbling it slowly , seeking out the tasty skin and the fragments of flesh like the last moments of a particularly luscious spare rib . |
29 | 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 ! |
30 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |