Ingestion : devour-39.4












[10 : Something ----s somebody ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Ingestor) V () DNI (Ingestibles) AVP (Manner)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Manner) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[in] (Manner)
NP (Ingestibles) V () CNI (Ingestor)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) NP (Time)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[on] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[through] (Instrument)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[at] (Ingestibles) PP[with] (Manner)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[at] (Ingestibles) AVP (Manner) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[on] (Ingestibles) PP[along] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) PPing[by] (Means)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) PP[between] (Time)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Place) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) PP[in] (Place) NP (Time)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Place) PP[from] (Time)
NP (Ingestibles) V () PP[by] (Ingestor) AVP (Manner)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[in] (Place) PP[out] (Source)
NP (Ingestibles) V () PP[by] (Ingestor) PP[in] (Place) NP (Time)
NP (Ingestibles) V () PP[by] (Ingestor) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () DNI (Ingestibles)


Examples from WordNet


Have another bowl of chicken soup!
he devoured three sandwiches
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
I don't take sugar in my coffee



Examples from VerbNet


Cynthia devoured the pizza.



Examples from SemCor


`` She wants you and Barbara to have dinner with her tomorrow night''.
`` I had a drink with the Flannagans''.
All_in_all, they had six drinks.
just_as p_'_lite an- an cohnfidunt, an Ah says' Uh_coahse you cai', but he says' Whah nawt, you ah hevin one'?
`` New_Orleans''? she says,`` of_course I 've had the best.
There it seems that the goitrogen ingested by dairy animals is itself inactive but is converted in the animal to an active goitrogen, which is then secreted in the milk.
It was enough for people to know that at_one_time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed- watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance, as thin as the seams on her stockings, and still thinner.
The Department_of_Agriculture averaged_out U._S. food consumption last year at 1488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John_Kennedy said go_to_bed hungry every_night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.
`` Do n't you think it 's selfish to have dinner before you go to pick her up''?
About now he 's probably having supper.
This may be incorporated in complete feeds at the level of 0.4 milligram of diethylstilbestrol per pound of ration- assuming animal consumes about 25 pounds daily.
He rose late and went_down in his bathrobe and slippers to have breakfast either alone or with Rachel.
Then they had dinner.
They had Vermouth, sitting in_front_of a cafe.
Anyone interested in attending the meeting may have reservations with Mrs._John_Whelan at the Hollywood_Public_Library.
And listening to such a conversation one morning while taking a cup of chocolate in a cafe, Rousseau found himself bathed in perspiration, trembling lest his authorship become known, and at_the_same_time dreaming of the startling effect he would make if he should proclaim himself suddenly as the composer.
Mr._Gorboduc took a swig of his sherry.
generous public provision for the infirm; democratic and secret elections of all officers including priests, meals taken publicly in common refectories; a common habit or uniform prescribed for all citizens; even houses changed once a decade; six hours of manual_labor a day for all but a handful of magistrates and scholars, and careful measures to prevent anyone from shirking; no private_property, no money; no sort of pricing at_all for any or services, and therefore no market in the economic sense of the term.
I was having lunch ago( apologies to N._V._Peale) with three distinguished historians( one specializing in the European Middle_Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far_East), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with`` deliberate speed, majestic instancy''( Francis_Thompson 's words for the Hound_of_Heaven 's pursuit) by judicial fiat.
Rounded posts give a soft, sculptured look, paneled doors have decorative burl panels or cane insets plus softening arches, table tops are inlaid in Macassar ebony or acacia.
She 'll eat just a pineapple and cottage_cheese salad and I 'm to have one with her so she won n't feel out of place''.
They had lunch at a sidewalk cafe overlooking the intersection of two broad, busy, unpicturesque streets, and coming home they got lost in the Metro; it took them over an hour to get_back to the station where they should have changed, in_order to take the line that went to the Place_Redoute.
I asked, taking a final gulp of my drink, and handing him the empty glass.
`` The actor had had much to drink and apparently became very violent.
Although she weighed only 108 pounds when she visited him, Carroll permitted her to go on a 10- day fast in which she took nothing but water.
`` Maybe to have supper.
`` We 'll ride out as_soon_as we 've had chuck''.
The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen, taking a sip from_time_to_time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots.
`` Mostly meat and potatoes- they have to have that go-go-go without getting too fat'', says Ramsey.
`` Just befoh he left foh his academeh we wuh hevin dack-rihs on the vuhranduh, Major_Roebuck an Ah, an Huhmun says' Ah hev one too'?
He had lived for almost thirty years in this same stone farmhouse with the same wife, a remarkably childish thing in itself; he rose at half past six every morning, made himself some French coffee, had his corn_flakes and more coffee, smoked four cigarettes while reading last Sunday 's Herald_Tribune and yesterday 's Pittsburgh_Gazette, then put_on his high-topped farmer 's shoes and walked under a vine bower to his workshop.
The daughter replied,`` Oh, I had dinner with- well, you do know him but he 's awfully nice- and we went_to a_couple_of places- I do suppose you 've heard of them- and we finished_up at a cute little night_club- I forget the name of it.
to the argument was the fact that while she might have tasted the coffee if it had been still hot, she might even have drunk some of it, she would have taken enough to kill her, for she would have been warned by its taste.
`` Every_month, f' r three days'', he said happily,`` I take no water into my system, no water whatsoever.
`` You 've not had your breakfast yet, gran' dad''.
She lay still on the bed, her head hardly denting the pillow; sometimes she opened her eyes and looked_around, and sometimes she took a_little milk or soup.
an Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said' Aw_right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh did n uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t_'_gethuh f' ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doa n think thet 's nahce at_all, d' you''?
Such_as now, when she sat at a table in the coffee_shop at the Officers' Club, having coffee and a hamburger to sustain her until dinnertime.
Earlier this month Edward_R._Murrow, director of the United_States_Information_Agency, came to Hollywood and had dinner with 100 leaders of the motion_picture industry.
He had lunch with Pauling.
We consume tons of aspirin and tranquilizers and sleeping_pills in_order_to get a moment 's relief from the tensions that are tearing us apart.
`` Come over and have a drink.
He took several large swallows, recollected that Docherty had gone_up another flight, and decided he would be wise to cover himself by finding him.
`` I 'll have a drink, then, if you 'll have one with me''.
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we 'd had in a long_time, and on Montero 's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
In_this same society, the plain citizen can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than he can consume.
They all three had another cup of coffee.
All this remembering took_place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld_Girls at the Beverly_Hills_Club.
They had brandy in the library.
Animals consuming 20 pounds feed daily receive 2 grams Dynafac).
`` Since we 're having coffee with them this afternoon'', he said,`` I think I 'll ask the daughter if we can pay her to come in to clean for us''.
He asked,`` Could we have a drink''?
She stopped at the Surcliffes' after dusk, and had a Scotch-and-soda.
He had dinner and sat there over his coffee watching the winding pattern of traffic as it crossed the bridge and spread_out like a serpent with two heads.
He was discharged from the hospital after a two day checkup and he and his parents had what Mr._McKinley described as a`` celebration lunch'' at the cafeteria on the campus.
It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District_Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel_room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio 's, an excellent Italian restaurant.
Defining sobriety in the limited sense of being free from the clinical symptoms of the effects of alcohol ingested and eliminated from the system, you are sober.
His rage had built_up as he his way here from the second floor, helped by the quantity of champagne he had consumed.
Could you possibly have lunch with him today?
Back in her living_quarters at the hospital she took bicarbonate_of_soda, and sulked.
The result is rather wonderful, but so rich as to be indigestible if taken in too thick slices.
`` Let 's have a drink and discuss a merger''.