Example sentences of "and put [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They take some of Britain 's toughest and most notorious criminals and put them through intense therapy ; forcing them to confront what they did and why . |
2 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
3 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
4 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
5 | 8 Get some air-bricks and put them in long grass or under bushes . |
6 | It spat a worrisome mixture of steam and flame out periodically and covered the bottom of the pans with black ooze , a treacly goo that got itself on to my pile jacket and put me in good humour for an hour or so . |
7 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
8 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
9 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
10 | The bill would give the service a ‘ new lease of life ’ and put it in good shape to provide an even better service by setting up a new system of financial management and creating new incentives to efficiency . |