Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wanted to avoid all the delays that creep in if we hack them by hi-speed Busby post to Dover , put them on board a ponderous Sealink ferry and eventually consign them to the decidedly risky hands of some unknown foreign postman in the forlorn hope that they-might , with luck and a following wind , reach the Antipodes before the turn of the century . |
| 2 | When you put them on board they just will change shape so they 'll fit in and they 're marvellous for for packing in . |
| 3 | Oh this changing put them on pot lid , I 'll put them on pot then put them |
| 4 | It must disarm the country , arrest the warlords and put them on trial . |
| 5 | After that , the Cypriot police would take them out to the airport and put them on flights to Frankfurt , where the bag-switch routine used by ‘ legitimate ’ smugglers was employed to bypass the airport 's security arrangements and load the ‘ dirty suitcases on to trans-Atlantic flights . |
| 6 | that helps them , but if you put them on radiators and God knows what round the house trying to keep them , get them dry |
| 7 | We need a more active approach to the promotion of new knowledge provided by research … to carry out large numbers of research projects and then put them on shelves and in pigeon holes is appallingly wasteful , as is also the vast amount of information available in hundreds of central and local government reports published each year and then forgotten , and never collated or analysed within an overall framework of reference . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 're looking for your undies , I 've folded them up and put them on top of the TV for you . |
| 9 | Put them on top of my pizza do n't you think ? |
| 10 | To save time I make up my float rigs beforehand and put them on pole winders . |
| 11 | This afternoon that put them on environment minister Michael Howard 's hit list . |
| 12 | They put them on pedal-cycles . |
| 13 | Now , all he wanted was to get back to his typewriter and put them on paper before they faded . |
| 14 | I 'm sick of all these people making great music , but when you put them on stage , they ca n't hack it , I think that 's pretty weak . |
| 15 | ‘ We could offer the men unlimited overtime — put them on bonus . |
| 16 | ‘ When we had n't seen her at the grave for a while we thought she must have gone away and so when we had any flowers left over we put them on Brian 's grave , ’ said Mary . |
| 17 | He helped her out of her things and put them on hangers so they would be less creased by morning . |
| 18 | Then pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 1 and 2 ( one already on needle 1 ) . |
| 19 | Pick up the next two stitches and put them on needles 2 and 3 ( one already on needle 2 ) . |
| 20 | But , at the same time , put them on show to the public in a similar manner to the Great Railway Show at York NRM , with occasional use on demonstration freight trains on the Bo'ness and Kinniel Railway . |
| 21 | They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed . |
| 22 | One , near Cork , allowed us to feed the kids in the backpacker 's kitchen , put them to bed in our basic but spotless large room ( £20 for all of us ) , then settle down to a sumptuous gourmet meal in their separate restaurant . |
| 23 | We put them to bed , we wake them up , we laugh and we cry with them ’ ( Berridge , 1985 , p. 54 ) . |
| 24 | In the evenings his mother was out , and Dad would read them stories and put them to bed . |
| 25 | You could think of course do have children , dad , can I , can I , can I , bed you go , just to shut them up so if you have two small children there , the chances are you will lose the woman put them to bed or . |
| 26 | He has n't got to bath the kids and put them to bed . |
| 27 | Saturday night I put them to bed erm they went to bed at half seven Saturday night . |
| 28 | He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again |
| 29 | ‘ Should you have any further questions , I suggest you put them to Commissioner Zen himself . ’ |
| 30 | When Charles got wind of a threatened attack on her by Pippin and his men , he returned southwards with unexpected speed , fell on Pippin 's force and put them to flight . |