Example sentences of "and drop them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 2 | She picked the onions up between cupped hands and dropped them into the frying pan on the cooker . |
| 3 | Her daughter , who had turned back to the window on her mother 's entry , sulkily moved a pile of film magazines and dropped them on the floor . |
| 4 | ‘ I think , ’ Nathan 's voice had an odd rasp as he pulled out a wad of papers and dropped them on the table , ‘ you 'd better get some sleep . |
| 5 | At the bottom of the companionway she struggled out of the wet oilskins and dropped them on the floor in a heap . |
| 6 | George lifted a stack of the day 's and Sunday 's papers none mentioned Miss Tuckey — and dropped them on the floor . |
| 7 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 8 | With larger seeds you may find it easiest to use your finger and thumb and drop them onto the compost . |
| 9 | Out of the corner of my eye I watched him wipe himself with Kleenex tissues and drop them on the floor , indifferent to the smears of blood on them . |
| 10 | Starting in one corner , Helen began to lift garments from pegs and drop them on the floor in a pile — a mack of her father 's , something of Edward 's not worn within living memory , a very ancient corduroy jacket of Dorothy 's , also unused for many a year . |
| 11 | In this arcade adventure the aim is to collect the correct objects and drop them in the right place at the right time . |
| 12 | With these oilskins and boots they 'd just come home and drop them outside the door and go indoors . |
| 13 | They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] . |
| 14 | She kept walking round her box , sighing , and picking bits out of her haynet and dropping them on the floor . |
| 15 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |