Example sentences of "[noun sg] put [pers pn] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ .
2 He could again ask parliament to put him at the head of the government .
3 Breath-taking flight simulation puts you at the joystick from biplane to helicopter .
4 a specially coded hyphen which is only displayed when formatting of the hyphenated word puts it at the end of a line .
5 The drifting phase of its life puts it at the mercy of all kinds of hungry animals , from other stationary filter-feeders to fish , so in order that its species shall survive , a mollusc must produce great numbers of eggs .
6 Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there .
7 But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table .
8 In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong .
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