Example sentences of "[conj] put [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now admittedly , the T four bacterial is a very simple organism , it ca n't leap about so it does n't need senses or a brain to direct it , or muscles or anything like that , it ca n't repair itself or change itself once it 's been made , therefore it does n't need to digest food , er to , to have an immune system or anything like that to repair itself or put itself to rights , it does n't need anything like that . |
| 2 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 3 | They think hard , but as Freddie says , you ca n't just plunge in unilaterally and put everything to rights . |
| 4 | I 've told Nenna time and again that she ought to get hold of some sort of reliable chap , an ex-Naval chippie would be the right sort , just to spend the odd day on board and put everything to rights . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the English soldiery hunted down every Irishman suspected of helping the French and put them to death in a variety of ingenious fashions . |
| 6 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 7 | Check what the resident would like to wear and that clothes are clean , and put them to hand if the person can not move easily . |
| 8 | ‘ But the men were many and clever and shot at the eagles with arrows , and trapped them in nets and put them to death , one after another . |
| 9 | London local authorities had delayed hearing petitioners ' cases and put them to considerable inconvenience . |
| 10 | In the evenings his mother was out , and Dad would read them stories and put them to bed . |
| 11 | When Charles got wind of a threatened attack on her by Pippin and his men , he returned southwards with unexpected speed , fell on Pippin 's force and put them to flight . |
| 12 | A chance for you to air your views and put them to a Government spokesperson . |
| 13 | He has n't got to bath the kids and put them to bed . |
| 14 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 15 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 16 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 17 | I 'll take you up with me and put you to bed . ’ |
| 18 | We kept you sedated and put you to bed here . |
| 19 | Who do you think stripped your clothes off and put you to bed ? ’ |
| 20 | Shall we put your 'jamas on and put you to bed ? |
| 21 | One of his most senior colleagues , Mr Michael Heseltine , the Environment Secretary , indicated that , if the Tories were the biggest party in a hung Parliament , Mr Major would draw up a programme of legislation and put it to the vote in Parliament rather than seeking any formal deal with the Liberal Democrats or Ulster Unionists . |
| 22 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 23 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 24 | On balance , the GDR , Hungary and Bulgaria have shown themselves able to absorb Western technology and put it to effective use ; but Romania and , more conspicuously , Poland , have combined high levels of dependency with ill-conceived investment decisions and the worst adaptation problems of the kind discussed in Chapter 2 . |
| 25 | She knew how to win that competition , too : when he reached through to her the fourth or fifth time , she did what she had often dreamt of doing before : kneeling up against the wall , she guided his hand and put it to her breast . |
| 26 | It is carried against , and so I come back to the new erm section being proposed by Professor on anti-semitism and concurred by the convenor , Dr , and put it to the assembly . |
| 27 | He had lifted the phone and put it to his ear without ever coming properly awake . |
| 28 | He might as well get a gun like Denis Hurley 's gun — and put it to her head and shoot her . |
| 29 | He dragged a handkerchief from his pocket and put it to his mouth ; dark sediment lifting in a subterranean cavern . |
| 30 | Then the Scots raided down from the borders and put it to the torch . |