Example sentences of "he put it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Knowing Louis 's concern for the Holy Land in 1147 he had led the French army on the Second Crusade — he put it about that all he really wanted to do was put his own house in order , make proper provision for his children , and then he would be off on crusade in his lord 's company . |
| 2 | Michael Ramsey took Eden 's letter into the chapel but knew what his answer would be even before he put it on the altar . |
| 3 | Two months ago he put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 4 | Their emphasis on the responsibility of the theologian towards the Bible , and on the need for a disciplined hermeneutic which will allow the Bible itself to speak , will be found again , albeit much modified , in the thought of Karl Barth ; as too will Archibald Hodge 's principle that ‘ Christ and his work is the centre around which all Christian theology is brought into order , ’ as he put it on page 16 of the 1878 edition of his Outlines of Theology , which was first published in 1860 , and , together with his father 's Systematic Theology ( 1871 ) , is a classic textbook of the Princeton method . |
| 5 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 6 | He put it on VAT . |
| 7 | He put it on a shelf at the back of the hangar with the rest of the heads . |
| 8 | He put it on the floor . |
| 9 | The panel came away after a little while ; he put it on the floor in front of him , and wriggled through on his elbows and knees into the darkness beyond . |
| 10 | He put it on the table and fixed the end of it under the lamp . |
| 11 | Taking the parcel from her , he put it on the back seat . |
| 12 | He put it on a table where they could see it . |
| 13 | I did , and he put it on his ring . ’ |
| 14 | The pigskin suitcase was his ; he put it on the bed and filled it with essentials . |
| 15 | He put it on it timer not me ! |
| 16 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 17 | ‘ Burdened ’ as he put it at his trial , ‘ with the intolerable knowledge of my own beastliness ! ’ |
| 18 | He put it under his overcoat , gently closed the boot , and tiptoed away along the yellow pavement in search of a yellow garage . |
| 19 | I told him to wait until we left , but no , he put it into my hand with a pleased grin on his stupid face . |
| 20 | Picking up the glass he put it to her mouth . |
| 21 | This stuff ( as he put it to himself ) often does work up to a point . |
| 22 | As he put it to the 1955 Congress of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party , ‘ socialist ideas can only triumph when the peoples of Eastern Europe eat like the delegates at this Congress ’ . |
| 23 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 24 | He put it to his mouth and tasted it , then looked back at Wang Sau-leyan , his ancient face creased into a smile . |
| 25 | He held out his hand and she gave it to him , watching him as he put it to his lips , her eyes fixed in an almost mesmerised stare . |
| 26 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 27 | He wanted to finish reading the works of Walter Machin that were available , perhaps have a good look at Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's autobiography and other writings , talk to people who knew Machin — grilling senior citizens in pubs , as he put it to himself : filling them with weak beer to stimulate their weaker memories . |
| 28 | He put it to me last night . ’ |
| 29 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 30 | As he put it to a prominent resister shortly after the liberation , France was not a country just beginning , but a country continuing . |