Example sentences of "put her at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 2 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 3 | Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease . |
| 4 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |
| 5 | It would be dangerous pinning Ebert down and he did n't want to put her at risk . |
| 6 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 7 | It was better , but not a lot , and McLeish who knew her to be in her late fifties decided any casual observer would put her at nearer seventy . |
| 8 | Well , judging by the looks of her I 'd put her at about fifteen , Vi , so get rid of her . |
| 9 | It would put her at even more of a disadvantage than she already was . |
| 10 | Bismarck 's aim was simply defined : to make Prussia the dominant state in Germany by putting her at the head of the vague movements for some form of unification which had arisen within the Confederation . |
| 11 | He smiled , putting her at ease because it was n't a lustful look that forewarned trouble . |
| 12 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 13 | Graf is one of the world 's top tennis players whose supreme athleticism and guts have put her at the top of a very tough profession . |
| 14 | A quick examination put her at ease but may have done little for her embarrassment ; the culprit was a misplaced liquorice all-sort . |
| 15 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |