Example sentences of "it down the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a lot of different dates to enter , either use a keystroke macro — something that I will cover in a future Step-by-Step ( but see ‘ Further Reading ’ ) or just enter the same date , say @DATEVALUE ( ’ 1-Jan-90 ’ ) in the first cell , copy it down the column for as many rows as you expect to need and then edit it ( using F2 ) to enter the real dates . |
| 2 | If necessary , use a padsaw to free the disc , but be careful not to lose it down the stack . |
| 3 | He dropped it and I kicked it down the alley . |
| 4 | It bore the address of the garage also , and he relayed it down the phone to Sam . |
| 5 | You can score points for the number of ceramic divisions you can move the butt over ( with extra for actually getting it down the hole and extra for doing it from the far end of the gutter from the hole ) , for the amount of destruction caused — apparently it 's very hard to get the little black cone at the burned end to disintegrate — and , over the course of the evening , the number of fag-ends so dispatched . |
| 6 | There was no lack of willing help to carry it down the croft to the cliff edge from where it was carefully lowered to the beach . |
| 7 | Quick as a thief , Garvey raised it to his collar and was about to drop it down the inside of his shirt when the Mason took a hold of his collar from behind and twisted it . |
| 8 | you can take it down the tip , |
| 9 | Think he 'd take it down the bottom would n't you ? |
| 10 | Well you 're gon na have to put the wire down , run it down the bottom |
| 11 | Is it down the bottom ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well we may as well have got that money and thrown it down the toilet ! |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 16 | You always had to spit it out and shove it down the back of some chair . |
| 17 | He flicked something on the gun and stuffed it down the back of his cords , then held a hand out to me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | and you wan na run it down the back , Deana take the wire down the back of all your books on the shelf |
| 20 | Sometimes he hides it down the back of his seat here . |
| 21 | Chucks it down the back . |
| 22 | Yeah , I 'll tell you what I did if I if that 's ladder 's out , I 'd drop it down the back of somewhere . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | Do you think you 've got to have it down the edge there , have n't you ? |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Handlers guided it down the ramp with ropes and then let it wander away rather unsteadily . |
| 29 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 30 | Inanimate matter does n't answer back and if you get fed up with what you 're doing you throw it down the sink or get rid of it . |