Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 2 | Well I want to put the goats in anyway . |
| 3 | I want to put the disposal unit on so can you move this ? |
| 4 | I was very pleased er when I came to put the book together to find that er most of er most of the actual walks corresponded with what was on the paper , which was nice , so I did n't have to waste much time . |
| 5 | ‘ Then I have always kept to making the Ovaltine last thing , and on Friday night I forgot to put the sugar in for him and went to get the bowl . |
| 6 | ‘ I forgot to put the teaspoons out . ’ |
| 7 | I forgot to put the change in the , get it in , she 's moved to the other |
| 8 | I forgot to put the box back . ’ |
| 9 | It 's got ginger biscuits in but I forgot to put the ginger in them . |
| 10 | have I got to put the lamps on or not ? |
| 11 | I like to put the television on , as there 's usually a very good programme at twelve ten like there is supposedly Rainbow today , but there is n't , which I find very useful for my toddler while I 'm getting lunch for the baby , myself and her , so she can sit down for twenty minutes , there can be a few minutes peace , and there 's just you know it 's just not on . |
| 12 | ‘ I was brought up in Nigeria , ’ he explained to the court , ‘ and when the consequences of the drought became obvious I decided to put the national interest first and perform the n'dula , a naked rain dance , on the village green . |
| 13 | He jumped brilliantly and I decided to put the pressure on to get away from them at the top of the hill . |
| 14 | We took four or five weeks to get across the Atlantic , being pursued by enemy submarines — all very worrying ! — and while Ben was setting Auden 's Hymn to St Cecilia and writing A Ceremony of Carols I started to put the Grimes scenario into shape . |
| 15 | But in the end I managed to put the events more or less out of my mind , and to finish my preparations . |
| 16 | So I try to put the younger ones off acquiring one until they 're older . |
| 17 | course I did n't know until I went to put the cream on her , I thought oh what 's that , little bit of tissue , it moved and . |
| 18 | So I think it is a matter of erm importance for the structure plan its inclusion er and I think to put the an answer to one of the questions that was put earlier , if it is not to be left to the district to decide on where development is or is not appropriate in open countryside as defined in the structure plan policy , who it is intended could be making the decision on where development would be appropriate . |
| 19 | Colleagues , I call to put the C E C position |
| 20 | Colleagues , I call to put the C E C position |
| 21 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 22 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 23 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
| 24 | I had to put the phone down because of you |
| 25 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 26 | Personally , I prefer to put the flysheet up first or use a tent that erects all in one . |
| 27 | I think I need to put the immersion on for just a little while . |
| 28 | I need to put the date in my diary cos they 're going to fill up during the summer so you |
| 29 | I have to put the tape on |
| 30 | These arguments had not at first cut much ice with social democrats , but two further ideological strands came to prominence in this period which helped to put the advocates of social progress through public spending and ‘ welfarism ’ onto the defensive , or even convince them of the folly of their ways : the monetary theory of inflation , and the ‘ too few producers ’ thesis of Bacon and Eltis ( 1976 ) . |