Example sentences of "put it [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry took the heavily laden tray from Peggy 's hands and put it on a side-table as Lizzie said , ‘ Did she have her dinner and tea all at once ? ’ |
| 2 | If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time . |
| 3 | Put it on a plate and find a quiet place to sit where you will not be disturbed by other people , by the radio or by the telephone . |
| 4 | Why did Granddad put it in a dump or of the pocket ? |
| 5 | You take the card back next time and they put it in a machine and add more points to it . |
| 6 | We have to get special stuff called bulb fibre and wet it and put it in a bowl and then we plant our bulbs in it . ’ |
| 7 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 8 | Once in , they had to dive for a golf ball , put it in a bucket and return to the trapeze to do it all again — fun eh ! |
| 9 | They put it in a bath and filmed it from above the surface of the water as it moved feebly about , but they were unable to get any detailed shots . |
| 10 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 12 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 13 | Then I , I put it in a saucepan and I stewed it the next |
| 14 | Put it in a jar and at the end of the year we 'll give you the money . |
| 15 | Put it in a basin and |
| 16 | And then he would fold it very carefully and put it in an envelope and then slit the flap he 'd he 'd not seal the envelope . |
| 17 | Then she wrote out a cheque in payment of the forgotten parking-ticket , put it in an envelope and went out . |