Example sentences of "[conj] put [pers pn] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had to say something humorous without being a smart-ass or putting her down in any way .
2 Sanguinetti 's faction of the PC , although not opposed to privatization as such , opposed Lacalle 's plan to sell off state assets through direct negotiations with potential buyers rather than putting them up for public tender .
3 I had a friend who had one of those ancient slide machines which was used to give light shows , and you could make the slides out of coloured oils and inks and put them together between two sheets of glass and when they 're heated up inside the machine , they went , splat , splat , and made these rather beautiful moving colours .
4 If you took all the cells of a swallow and put them together at random , the chance that the resulting object would fly is not , for everyday purposes , different from zero .
5 Cut the slice in four and put it on to four hot plates .
6 He lifted his head and put it slightly to one side to listen better .
7 Rem it rem it out and put it back in later and see if it crashes .
8 A detached head , who acts with detachment , coolly weighing matters up , allowing the mind to soak up ideas and to put them together in new ways , is not a primary-school image .
9 Matching components and putting them together with specialist custom fittings enables HESL to serve the inspection needs of a variety of industries and extremely competitively .
10 He walked slowly , however , to make the journey as long as possible , and put her down on dry land .
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