Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] a [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 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When I put her in a small paddock while I muck out , she licks the soil for about ten minutes . |
| 13 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | As one officer put it in a local study ( Glennerster et al . , |