Example sentences of "[noun prp] was put [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 2 | When Roger Stubbs — now Bob Worcester 's number two at MORI — left the market research unit , Wanless was put in charge at just 24 , ‘ an unheard of young age for a job like that ’ . |
| 3 | A Mr. Nichols was put in charge as a surface foreman and Thomas Jones , working on the stamps , said to Barratt , " they is sure to work " . |
| 4 | Legend has it that Sarah Helen was put to death in her home town of Blackburn for practising witchcraft , locked alive inside a lead coffin . |
| 5 | As the most avaricious of the courtiers Damory was put under restraint in November 1317 by Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke , and Bartholomew Badlesmere [ qq.v. ] , both of them moderates among Edward 's associates , who imposed on Damory a written undertaking not to profit excessively from the king 's generosity nor to permit others to do so . |
| 6 | On 9 May William Berkeley was put in charge of the Isle of Wight , and the lieutenant of Porchester , of which Woodville was constable , was ordered to deliver the castle to William Ovedale . |
| 7 | On 9 May William Berkeley was put in charge of the Isle of Wight , and the lieutenant of Porchester , of which Woodville was constable , was ordered to deliver the castle to William Ovedale . |
| 8 | Dic Bach y Saer was put to bed by the older children he so serenely neglected , whispering , ‘ I 've got children in a thousand , good as gold . ’ |
| 9 | Sam was put in charge of us , for Dad and Carl were at work . |
| 10 | After returning to Soho , Murdock was put in charge of the mechanical department and was regarded as the right-hand man of Boulton & Watt . |
| 11 | When Francis Mangon was put in charge of the Rex Cinema in Paris , he presented the Forty-eight Mangon Tillerettes . |
| 12 | But there is no mention of the fact that Scheiner was put under pressure by his superiors to curb his anti-Aristotelian conjectures . |
| 13 | In 1935 Ackroyd was put in charge of Entwhistle Halt on the Darwen-Bolton line . |
| 14 | On Nov. 15 former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams was put on probation for two years , ordered to devote up to 100 hours to community service and fined a token $50 for unlawfully witholding information from Congress in the Iran-contra scandal [ see p. 38521 ] . |
| 15 | Law was very angry when Churchill was put in office by Lloyd George in 1917 , and the National Union resolved that it was " an insult to the Army and Navy and an injury to the Country " . |
| 16 | Sarah was put in care at a very young age — and was on the game even while under the supervi-sion of social workers . |
| 17 | It was during the fifth week — Christmas and the New Year having passed with little to celebrate — that Charlie was put in charge of the duty roster for his own section . |
| 18 | That after the conquest of Norway Swegen was put in charge of it under his mother 's tutelage reinforces this conclusion . |