Example sentences of "they put [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Terry 's took her dad through to hospital cos they put her on oxygen because . |
| 2 | have they put her on a diet ? |
| 3 | so he said they put her to bed and he said it was best Christmas they ever ! |
| 4 | she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley |
| 5 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 6 | family and they put me onto valium , but having worked in psychiatric I knew the results of valium , so I I gradually broke them down and got off them but for six full months I could n't sleep |
| 7 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 8 | After that , they put me into Martinho 's care . |
| 9 | I missed several classes because they put me up in , for instance I , when I came up from the infants to the big school I missed the first standard and they put me into standard two and I went from two , three , four , five , six , seven and seven and I was only eleven , you see , so I did pretty well and then the Headmaster came to my parents and said , why do n't you let her go in for a scholarship to Stowmarket Secondary and so I went in for that and er there was one other girl went as well , there were two of us and erm , and of course we only heard during the summer break and er we passed . |
| 10 | So they put me to millinery . |
| 11 | He called a doctor and they put me to bed . |
| 12 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 13 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 14 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 15 | Er , I actually had two stillborn babies , one one year after each other and they put me on Valium and it did n't do me any good at all ! |
| 16 | Anyway , one day I was messing about playing hide and seek , hiding from the officers , and they put me on report . |
| 17 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 18 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 19 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 20 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 21 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 22 | By the way those did I tell you they put me on some tablets to re to erm to erm |
| 23 | And erm I did n't get the actual job I went for but they put me on the , on the relief register so that I go round to different people 's homes or different big hospitals and different Mencap homes relieving people when they 're on holiday or if they 're short of staff or something like that . |
| 24 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 25 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 26 | They put me in touch with a few other people in nearby Sheffield and we arranged to have a tentative first meeting in someone 's flat . |
| 27 | They put me in touch with a Fellow of the Institute by the name of John Read — same name as the pilot of DZ642 , which I thought was a good omen . |
| 28 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 29 | So they put me in a detention centre for six months . |
| 30 | But they put me in mind of trees in November . |