Example sentences of "[pers pn] was put [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I was put up for the committee and was successful and sat on the committee for quite a number of years . |
| 2 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 3 | Then I was put back onto the house . |
| 4 | Bernadette : With my other babies they 've mostly left them quite close to me , but she was put over to the side , the doctor was slow in coming , and she went over and checked her over , instead of coming to speak to me as they usually do — she went out again and did n't even look at me [ laughs ] … |
| 5 | It is worth lingering over Churchill 's ‘ overlord ’ experiment , as it was put back on the agenda of reform by Sir Douglas Wass , former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury , in his 1983 Reith Lectures . |
| 6 | During the sittings , he was always in good spirits ; and as long as you did not try to glimpse what he was putting up on the canvas , he would dilate on any subject that took his fancy . |
| 7 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 8 | Though he claimed merely to have followed the Protector 's orders , he was put out of the commission of the peace . |
| 9 | He was put down in the spare bedroom with the blinds closed against the sun , and Jim sat with him telling him stories until he fell asleep . |
| 10 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 11 | If the doctor 's estimate of the time of death is anywhere near right I doubt if he was put in before the turn of the tide . " |