Example sentences of "[pron] [be] put [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only mercy is that most of them are put out of their misery before they 've lived a tenth of their natural lifespan . |
| 2 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 3 | After one day on my own I am put back on trainee status . |
| 4 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 5 | Just as I was put through to you I had the idea of reaching out to take one of these pencils and to tear off one of the canvass-returns as a notepad . |
| 6 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 7 | Luckily , I was put on their reduced fee scheme and only had to pay six pounds a session . |
| 8 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 9 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 10 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 11 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 12 | It 's laughable but at the time it was n't laughable but when you think back , this man that I was put on with , he was acting guard foreman . |
| 13 | After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain . |
| 14 | I was put out , but not drastically put out . |
| 15 | ‘ I was put out , ’ confessed Rose , sinking back into her seat . |
| 16 | After the normal speculation that surrounds these events I was put out of my misery as she weighed in at 32lb 4oz — to say I was ecstatic would have been an understatement . |
| 17 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 18 | Then I was put back onto the house . |
| 19 | When I was a first year I was put in as ballboy and I did n't know the rules . |
| 20 | I was put down at Whitcross , a crossroads on the moor , after travelling for two days in the coach . |
| 21 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
| 22 | I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus . |
| 23 | On trying to contact Mr by phone I have on many occasions I was put off to say he was n't available I have also come to the foyer at the bottom asked to see Mr after twenty minutes wait and nobody turned up I decided to retire . |
| 24 | IT IS a rather puzzling irony that in a country where we are apparently so obsessed with our homes , such a huge proportion of our new houses are mass produced boxes which are put up speculatively by developers who have little knowledge of their end customers ' needs and requirements . |
| 25 | It is always worth taking a fresh look at the toys and apparatus which are put out daily , to decide just why they are there . |
| 26 | ‘ These men had terriers with them , which are put down setts in illegal badger hunting . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ These men had terriers with them which are put down setts in illegal badger hunting . |
| 28 | Despite the happenings of the 400 years which have passed since the last of these buildings were being constructed , the quantity which exists in all European countries is testimony to the ability of the builders and the truly vast numbers of structures which were put up between 1150 and 1550 . |
| 29 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 30 | Bob Henry , you must be aware of some of the criticisms which were levelled at the companies which were put out by arts associations , where they say really it 's very self-indulgent and nobody much goes to see this particular type of dance group . |