Example sentences of "put [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Because however , however much brute force you put in , it 's how you put through the javelin .
2 We discovered that it was because of the pills put between the cocoa bean sacs to kill insects .
3 The application to the local community is one that I put as a challenge to all : How can we help people to take seriously membership in the Eucharistic community of faith ?
4 I put back so and then I put against the fence .
5 comes out first and then you see how the padding because this wadding is stitched onto the back , and the front is the bit you put against the wound and you put it straight against the would without
6 With push and pull toys the children experience weight in a very practical way when deciding what and how much they put into a pram or trolley to push .
7 The hours that you put into a case are therefore of the utmost importance .
8 I mean it was just lifted from the scripture and and put into a prayer or whatever .
9 The problem is , the problem is though , half the time you put into a situation , where , I , I , I was due er , a week 's holiday , and two weeks previous to that , I was actually changed contract so I was there on this new contract , and in a fortnight I was going to take a holiday , and sort of , well I ca n't stop you from taking your holiday , but you know , it 's , that sort of problem is n't it .
10 Yeah they 'll they 'll be taken away from their parents and put into a juvenile
11 The stately measure of the band , who were not particularly loud , was the steady , elegant funk they put into the music ; they did n't need flashness or speed to get across .
12 If you play around with the savings plan spreadsheet you will quickly discover that the earnings ratio is n't dependent on how much you put into the plan every month , only on how long you save for and the interest rate .
13 This week for 24 hours they 're refusing to cook , shop or even help the kids with their homework because , they say , they should get a regular Government wage for all the time and effort they put into the home .
14 His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’
15 The quality element is that which you put into the system .
16 How can you protect the money you put into the company ?
17 Put into the river , ’ said George , studying the circle of shocked faces , ‘ somewhere on these premises .
18 Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that .
19 Not new light bulbs , the ones that she 'd taken out and put into the plastic bag .
20 and it says , you can only appeal it will appear in November , that 's when it 's going to be , er put into the library
21 Around 3,500 of Britain 's industrial processes will have to be justified to the inspectorate for the pollution they put into the environment on land , into the air and into water .
22 We can all go and invest in PEPs , we can all go and invest in pension plans and all of that gets taken by the institutions and put into the stock market .
23 ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’
24 Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction .
25 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 .
26 To begin with , the new water you put into the pond was probably straight from the tap .
27 ‘ What you put into the business , ’ Daisy said , ‘ you should have treated it as a loan and let me pay you back the capital .
28 It 's the stuff they put under the floor . ’
29 Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd
30 They had this very unhealthy large majority and they put before the House a Bill which offered total deregulation of shopping hours and to all intents and purposes stripped out nearly all the employment protection which has been a hallmark of Sunday trading legislation , certainly for the past century .
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