Example sentences of "[noun prp] put [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Shevardnadze put it in a speech to foreign ministry staff in 1987 , they represented a country which for the previous fifteen years had been ‘ more and more losing its position as one of the leading industrially developed countries ’ . |
| 2 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 3 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 4 | WOODY PUT ME THROUGH HELL |
| 5 | Ellen put them in pride of place above the fireplace in the front room downstairs . |
| 6 | As Barney Hoskyns put it in his Prince : Imp of the Perverse — ‘ he is where all the desires of pop meet and tangle — their camp cupidon , their locus of signification . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 8 | Current predictions for the cost of generating electricity with the Super-Phenix put it at about the same as coal but twice as expensive as a conventional reactor . |
| 9 | Ken put it on top of the locker , where it staggered around the perimeter mewing and testing space with its paw . |
| 10 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 11 | By the late 1980s the CPSU itself accepted , as Gorbachev put it to the 27th Party Congress , that no single party could have a ‘ monopoly of truth ’ and that the movement as a whole would not normally be unanimous on all the issues it confronted . |
| 12 | The doctor stayed for another hour , gave Cora-Beth the promised sedative and a tearful Becky put her to bed . |
| 13 | Did Eric Clapton put you onto Soldanos ? |
| 14 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 15 | Many similar statements can be found in the Law Reports : as Lord Wright put it in Luxor ( Eastbourne ) Ltd v Cooper [ 1941 ] AC 108 " Decisions on one contract may help by way of analogy and illustration in the decision of another contract . |
| 16 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 17 | And they looked on course when goals from Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush put them in front after the RCS had taken a 16th minute lead through Pavel Kuka . |
| 18 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 19 | As Sir John Simon put it in the Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the City of London 1849–50 , ‘ It is no uncommon thing , in a room of twelve foot square or less , to find three or four families styed together … in the promiscuous intimacy of cattle . ’ |
| 20 | That night Eva put me in her clean little spare room . |
| 21 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 22 | Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air . |
| 23 | As Melody put it to Seb when they were discussing the matter for the umpteenth time at the farm , ‘ You go up there and try to tell 'em Anna should n't be marrying Nahum Plunkett and they 'll tear you to pieces and feed you to the dogs . ’ |
| 24 | In particular , a decision on the meaning of a word or phrase in a standard form commercial agreement will generally be followed because , as Lord Denning put it in The Annefield [ 1971 ] P 168 , " Once a court has put a construction on a standard form , commercial men act upon it . |
| 25 | Helen put it on the table . |
| 26 | The loyalty which Anglicans professed to the Stuart monarchy was quite specifically " a church of England-Loyalty " , as William Sherlock put it in his sermon to James II 's first Parliament on 29 May 1685 . |
| 27 | Pears was Boro 's hero when Cambridge put them under fierce pressure in the first half . |
| 28 | But Kevin Wilson scored a fine individual goal and Andy Williams put it beyond doubt . |
| 29 | The music is lost , but Cavalieri 's contemporaries agree that it was he who , as Peri put it in the preface to his Euridice ( 1600 ) , ‘ before anyone else made our music ’ ( i.e. the ‘ nuova maniera di canto ’ ) ‘ heard on the stage ’ . |
| 30 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |