Example sentences of "been put [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Ronnie How are you getting on as you can see at the top I have been put away in a prison . |
| 2 | Many arguments have been put forward for a family perspective or policy statements to counter the apparently poor ‘ fit ’ between much existing social policy and significant social change ( Henwood and Wicks , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | Imbalances in the ecology of the reefs has been put forward as a reason for these plagues caused by commercial fishing of the large predatory gastropod the triton ( Charonia tritonis ) one of the few predators of the Crown of Thorns . |
| 4 | A disused RAF station has been put forward as a site for a travellers camp . |
| 5 | AN action plan to improve pool safety has been put forward in a report by Richmondshire district auditor . |
| 6 | He replied that nothing had been put forward concerning a trust . |
| 7 | Jackson had been put up at a boarding house , to await the arrival of Herbert Chapman next morning . |
| 8 | Patrick and Jane had been put up in a room in the Shelbourne Hotel which faced St Stephen 's Green . |
| 9 | He should have been put up against a wall and shot , if you ask me , for dereliction of duty . |
| 10 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 11 | Unlike all too many pointy headstock/Floyd-equipped guitars , the KH Custom has been put together with a degree of understanding , and not just by numbers . |
| 12 | In recent years , photographs of newcomers to the profession have been put together in a volume expressly produced for that purpose , by Spotlight . |
| 13 | It has been put together by a group of younger supporters , and the first issue comes complete with a free disabled driver sticker which should make parking at away games much easier . |
| 14 | Apparently the school dessert had n't been too popular with the children : the remains of the custard had been put out in a bin , and this had attracted that great opportunist , the starling . |
| 15 | The gentle mercies of the lash were used even more extravagantly for civilising the ‘ primitive ’ peoples of the Empire in the nineteenth century , and in one of its anti-garotting tirades Punch ( 6 December 1862 ) had good cause to remember the lesson of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which had been put down in a sea of blood . |
| 16 | True , Gilels does half-smudge the odd chord but , then , his recording gives the impression of having been put down in a handful of massive musically organic takes , where the new Philips occasionally betrays signs of cutting-room technology . |
| 17 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 18 | I think he must have been put in from a boat . " |