Example sentences of "they [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This assumes that girls themselves want to do this , unlike Kate whose response to being given contraceptive pills by her mother was to put them down the toilet . |
| 3 | The Japanese treat valuable fish much like Bonsai , handing them down the generations as living heirlooms . |
| 4 | And er then th one man used to load the barrel , and the other man was to put them down the plank . |
| 5 | So they unharnessed the wagons , left them down the Barking road and brought the horses to the smithy . |
| 6 | Put them down the hole . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's cos they do n't go out see and when they do go out I remember the first time I took them down the park , they were like monkeys |
| 9 | The voices rose to a piercing shriek , and the crowd of silver helmets went flooding in pursuit , chasing both of them down the dunes to the sea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We 'll have to take them down the recycling . |
| 12 | And they have decided to issue part of their deficit-financing bonds to the market at attractive interest rates , instead of forcing them down the throats of reluctant workers ( though the lack of a secondary market may still make them unappetising ) . |
| 13 | Just put them down the way you think that they 're spelt . |
| 14 | Well we had to drag them down the hall . |
| 15 | We had hung them down the inside of our trousers when we got out of the car . |
| 16 | And when and when erm dad got in a Land Rover round field it used to beat them down the field ! |
| 17 | Then the fire died down and Isambard 's more timorous followers came hurtling after him , and by sheer weight swept their opponents before them down the hillside . |
| 18 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 19 | Joan that 's right , I met them down the town in Torquay |
| 20 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 21 | The tongue acts as a pump , helping to suck in small forms of water-life and squeeze them down the throat . |
| 22 | Chris leads them down the hallway to the bedroom , and gets back on the bed next to Pauline . |
| 23 | Most recent of course , is euthanasia it does n't draw the line at killing foxes I had this terrible vision in the early hours this morning , of Ron closing all our elderly persons ' homes , pushing all the old people out onto the street and the hunt with at its head hunting them down the countryside . |
| 24 | ‘ We were relying on him and Steve McManaman to attack them down the flanks , and when Mark dropped out it reduced our attacking options . ’ |
| 25 | He 'd get his mam to do them , or taken them down the launderette like Nick Kamen did . |
| 26 | She said I 'm not wearing them down the shop . |
| 27 | That I told Oliver I 'd put them down the waste-disposal and the phone went silent , and when I finally said , ‘ Are you still there ? ’ he just answered , ‘ I love you , ’ and hung up . |
| 28 | Lesley 's had a letter to say from them down the job place they ai n't got nothing . |
| 29 | Reluctantly I put down my book and followed them down the garden . |
| 30 | When English resolution faltered and they turned to flee , the Scots pursued them down the Lowlands and across the Border , laying waste to Northumberland and Cumberland . |