Example sentences of "to put [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I think it 's a bit unnecessary to put me on the spot — this is n't a bloody inquisition . |
| 2 | But after they found out I was sleeping with my boyfriend , my mum said she was n't going to put me on the Pill because it was the easiest way out . |
| 3 | ‘ I am asking for a mandate from the supporters and shareholders to put me on the board . ’ |
| 4 | When you 're all gone he 's going to put me on the |
| 5 | Firstly , although Wessel ( 1797 ) and Argand ( 1806 ) had tried to make complex numbers a little more respectable by showing how to interpret them , their addition and multiplication geometrically , there remained , possibly because of doubts concerning the intuitive use of geometrical arguments , the desire to put them on a firmer basis . |
| 6 | Erm right just t message on secretaries clubs , going to put them on a back burner for a while then in terms of actually forming a club as such |
| 7 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |
| 8 | and I 've mounted them on green germ , but I 'm going to put them on a table , and then hang the germs from the ceiling or something , round , cos I have n't got a board for that . |
| 9 | I 'd put that out with them two tapes and take to Julie to put them on a big tape for you . |
| 10 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 11 | Curiously , the attitude to fish of those who either lovingly hand-feed them pellets or seek to put them on the bank is equally caring . |
| 12 | They come in three sizes complete with tweezers to put them on the fish . |
| 13 | You could ask them till kingdom come to put them on the bus , but they never do … . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen . |
| 15 | The effect of this has been held to be that , even if the company omits to put them on the register they become members and holders of the number of shares stated . |
| 16 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 17 | The way to copy the formulas is first to put them on the entry line . |
| 18 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 19 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 20 | The till , the till locks , and erm we used to assemble those as well and er it was a fortunate one who used to do the lacquering , there was a big er big erm heated table and er it was easy work to do the lacquering you see and you used to have to put them on the top of the heated tower to dry before they were packed to go away , but erm they were , it was a hard place to work for but er the one son Mr he was always in London and er this is n't being recorded now is it , is it ? |
| 21 | Well I 've got lots of acquaintances but I do n't know that I necessarily want to put them on the erm |
| 22 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 23 | I 'm not trying to put them on an equal par , but later Maxwell erm Action Group were concerned with four hundred and eighty million disappearing . |
| 24 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 25 | Midland Car Loans have been specially developed to put you on the road as quickly and simply as possible . |
| 26 | Well let , let , let , let me tell you , I do n't want to put you on the spot , the , the , the analogy is of er the typical pattern of development of a neurosis , which Freud says is a trauma that happens often in infancy . |
| 27 | If you feel your baby 's been quiet during the day , you can ask a nurse to put you on the machine and it 'll reassure you the baby 's still there kicking away . |
| 28 | yeah , we should have to put you on the book |
| 29 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
| 30 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |