Example sentences of "[was/were] put [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 2 | The series of events began at the CastleCourt shopping complex at teatime last night when a woman , with her one-year-old child , was putting her shopping in the back of her Ford Granada . |
| 3 | She was putting her trust in the wrong people again . |
| 4 | As he was putting their luggage into the book , the girl came out of the hotel carrying her backpack . |
| 5 | Max was putting his bag into the boot of his BMW as Morse walked slowly up to him . |
| 6 | Left penniless when her husband dropped dead suddenly one Monday morning as he was putting his horse between the shafts to go to the country on his weekly door-to-door round , her pride had not allowed her to accept for long the charity of the community 's Board of Guardians . |