Sentence examples for swallow it as from inspiring English sources

Now it seems that Sir Humphrey has dusted it down and persuaded David Blunkett (of whom I expected better) to swallow it as gullibly as Jim Hacker".

Whenever you asked after the wife, you had to sort of slur the word, or swallow it, as in "How's your w, w, you know, your w—?" In correspondence, Fanshawe wouldn't even spell it out, but used ampersands for the vowels.

Swallow it as quickly as you can, then wait for 5-10 seconds.

Rodent droppings might also contain hair — rodents swallow it as they groom themselves.

PO dislikes the constitution, but will swallow it as a price of EU membership.

The Senate could attach the Alexander-Murray legislation to a government funding measure, hoping that Republicans in the House would be willing to swallow it as part of a measure to avoid a government shutdown.

Have I swallowed it?" As it turned out, Mr. Liu's hair and fingertips were also contaminated.

It reverberates in the mouth for a few seconds after you've swallowed it, as though the taste buds were strings.

The state-owned company "swallowed it as a one-off cost of doing business in extreme circumstances," Philippe Huet, an executive vice president at Électricité de France, said.

Even pounded into the mud until he swallowed it, as he was in a football match in "Up in the World" (1956), he emerged as "that dangerous little man", baring his teeth like a tiger.Walking on the grassHe never forgot to be dignified, though.

The story does not begin, as written, with the dysfunctional family unit in a snapshot around the kitchen table; instead, incongruously, Amanda (Judith Ivey) delivers her infuriating mantra on Tom's eating habits — "Human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down" — as Tom is hunched over his typewriter.