Example sentences of "and putting [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 2 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 3 | Cos she 's gone mad and they put it on her , right , and they , they 're holding her and they 're tapping out of the stage sidewards and she 's sort of like going like this , she , she , thinks all these nice men 'll love me and then like at the end of the show you see them , they 're tapping her out of the studio and putting her into a van and she 's still wearing a straight jacket and smiling at you . |
| 4 | By the final scene , however , we infer his dislike of McKendrick from the fact that having seriously impinged on his negative face by placing Hollar 's thesis in his briefcase and putting him into a situation of considerable personal danger , he makes no apology for his action whatsoever . |
| 5 | In a report published on April 10 , Charles Schumer , the Democratic chairman of the Congressional sub-committee on crime and criminal justice , stated that the costs of capturing Noriega ( estimated to be at least US$164,000,000 ) and putting him on trial ( estimated at US$20,000,000 ) paled in comparison to the " unprecedented costs " incurred by the prosecution in plea bargaining deals with scores of convicted drug traffickers and other convicted criminals to build its case [ see p. 38429 ] . |
| 6 | ‘ No , ’ Rain agreed , ‘ and putting him behind bars would bring to light the reason for the murder . |
| 7 | Like using old '70s art covers and guitar legends , turning them around and putting them on Number One albums , ha ha ! |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 9 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 10 | Mrs Foster bobbed about collecting the items and putting them on the counter . |
| 11 | They are taking them from one list and putting them on another . ’ |
| 12 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 13 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 14 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 15 | I can see no moral difference between seeking out mongol children in the womb to kill them and putting them into gas chambers after birth . |
| 16 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 17 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 18 | Talking with their age peers may also be important , and small group counselling can be a useful means of both enabling elderly people to realize that their sexual needs are not unusual , and putting them into contact with others who may have similar or even corresponding needs . |
| 19 | A default colour palette will be displayed on the screen from which you select colours for your woolbox , rather like going into a shop , choosing cones of different colour yarns and putting them into a bag to take home ! |
| 20 | However , it is worth taking a calm and realistic look at the risks you might have taken and putting them into perspective . |
| 21 | She was n't in the kitchen , nor in the dairy where Mister Johnny was wiping the eggs and putting them into their trays . |
| 22 | ‘ Thanks , ’ said Jenny , taking the traveller 's cheques from Adam and putting them into her flying jacket . |
| 23 | Sullivan says IBM is ‘ taking the benefit of the productivity ’ by changing the jobs people do , and putting them into the revenue-earning areas of the company . |
| 24 | Alright , and because that , protectionism is required to do that , we must be taking resources away from more efficient industries and putting them into , into agriculture . |
| 25 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 26 | are putting in they have high attendance rates because they 're including explained absences you know , as justified you know , and putting them with the actual attendance |
| 27 | So natural had this practice become that only in the past fifteen or twenty years has there grown up in Britain the idea of conserving redundant industrial and commercial buildings and putting them to new uses . |
| 28 | This has been a fairly gritty chapter , all about beating up baddies , causing them pain and putting them to flight . |
| 29 | It is the argument of this book that many of the reasons for this are organizational , and that a very considerable change in attitudes and practice results from taking up the administrative implications of all aspects of resource-based learning ( audio-visual , print-form and other ) and putting them to hand . |
| 30 | So , for example , we see the pupils messing around , ‘ to get back at the teachers for telling them off and putting them in detention , ’ or using physical violence after being unjustly accused of a misdemeanour , or being given a ‘ soft ’ teacher . |