Example sentences of "[noun] put the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They rushed him through to Resus , and got him going again , and while Kathleen put the monitor leads on Jack checked him for injuries and ordered X-rays .
2 Mr Loughran said last night : ‘ My girlfriend put the application in a few months ago .
3 Royal patronage put the seal of approval on the new form and the companies went to particular pains to arrange the Queen 's journeys .
4 Unofficial guesses in Taiwan put the amount of cash rather higher , at $15 billion-25 billion .
5 On Jan. 2 , Azerbaijani President Ayaz Mutalibov put the region under direct presidential rule .
6 ‘ Is there anything I can do ? ’ she asked , as Rebecca put the receiver down .
7 The Hillsborough Relatives ' Association put the idea to football club bosses and a badge is planned as a permanent reminder of the April 1989 tragedy in which 95 people died .
8 A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) .
9 Malpass put the fingers of his right hand on the chair arm and pressed them down one at a time until all four knuckles cracked loudly .
10 Toby put the light on again , and his face was set .
11 Galvone put the question in English .
12 Galvone put the question to Manescu who stood confidently , hands on his hips , staring at Galvone , never giving a glance in Hauser 's direction .
13 Ellen put the point to Bernard .
14 But Wilmots put the tie beyond reach when he squeezed the ball through Henry Smith 's legs and late on Andre Cruz hit a post .
15 Rex put the coin in .
16 Following Peacock 's first half double , a powerful header from Newcastle centre half Steve Howey put the game beyond Charlton 's reach .
17 Philip Major rescued Ports at the other end with a neat challenge on Macartney — but minutes later Cunningham put the visitors ahead .
18 The figure put the knife at the Doctor 's throat .
19 Manville put the contents of the two messages together and congratulated himself that things seemed to be going so well .
20 Martin Brundle put the Brabham-Yamaha into 12th place on the grid — despite not having the benefit of special fuel for qualifying and a rev limit of 12,000rpm as opposed to the 13,000rpm-plus enjoyed by other V12 users .
21 Lamarck was eminent for his classification of invertebrates , and had in effect put the chain of being into motion , so that everything was moving slowly upwards , and creatures had not become extinct but had just changed , responding to their environment .
22 Norman Thomas , former Senior Chief HMI ( Primary ) and author of the ILEA review put the case elegantly , recently :
23 High winds and high drama off the west coast put the lasers and the darts to the test … sailing craft that is … designed by a boat firm in Banbury … and taken to the limit in their very own National Championships .
24 A computer fault put the line out of action temporarily , but it is now up and running again .
25 The stranger put the glass down on the table and looked sharply at me .
26 Mollie put the album back and we made our way downstairs with our collection of chemicals .
27 Despite cheap chocolate , the World in a Shopping Basket study put the UK fifth most expensive in a league table of shopping prices .
28 The Camden Study put the figure as high as ⅓ severely dementing , and a total of ⅔ of mild , moderate and severe dementia were combined .
29 In Darlington yesterday bookie Frank Pinkney put the prices for who will win the key marginal seat , currently held by the Tories , as Conservatives 4–6 favourites ; Labour 5–4 ; Liberal Democrats 200–1 .
30 Francis Latham put the point yet more clearly : ‘ women are physiologically disqualified from contention with men in the political arena , not by virtue of any tyrannical law of man 's devising , but by reason of fixed and irrevocable decrees of nature which may not be violated with impunity ’ .
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