Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 2 | The packet of Durex , bought in a chemist 's at Ipswich to meet an eventuality that Rosie had never allowed to materialize , lived permanently in his wallet ; he put them in a brown envelope in case a chance sighting made his intentions too crudely obvious . |
| 3 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 4 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 5 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |
| 6 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 7 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 8 | And yesterday Darlington bus inspector Malcolm Humble told how a Sure Style salesman put him through a five-hour ordeal before threatening to send him a bill for his time . |
| 9 | Lowe put him through an intensive course of twice-a-week sprint training and night hill-running . |
| 10 | But it was with the coming of sound , in 1929 , that Colman 's Hollywood career really came into its own : the producer Sam Goldwyn was the first to realize the magic of that infinitely poetic , English voice , and put him under a long-term contract which was to last virtually the whole of the rest of his life . |
| 11 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
| 12 | Election defeats at the hands of Shaftesbury , now lord chancellor , in 1673 ‘ put him into a great rage ’ and brought him to the fore in parliamentary debates . |
| 13 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
| 14 | Keep the old man in there , get him out in good time to defrost , maybe even put him in a hot bath to remove any traces of his preservation . |
| 15 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 16 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 17 | Suspecting that her diarrhoea and wind might be due to Candida infection , she put her on an anti-Candida diet and a course of anti-fungal drugs . |
| 18 | But when the frail widow let the man into her home to shelter , he knocked her to the floor and put her through a savage attack . |
| 19 | When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes . |
| 20 | He put her in an open boat , with no oars , at the mouth of the River Aberlessie which , the chronicle says , was called ‘ The Mouth of Stench ’ because of the thousands of rotting fish cast on the sands . |
| 21 | Thank you for flying Maggovertski Airways ; please return the stewardess her pantyhose , put her in the upright position , and kindly pray that the tyres do n't blow . ’ |
| 22 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 23 | As de Gaulle put it in a controversial passage at one press conference : " The President is obviously the only person to hold and to delegate the authority of the State . " |
| 24 | As one officer put it in a local study ( Glennerster et al . , |
| 25 | His central point , as he put it before the National Press Club on May 4th , was that ‘ you certainly ca n't help Hong Kong by hurting our economy . ’ |