Example sentences of "to put [pers pn] at [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They do everything to put me at ease .
2 They do everything to put me at ease .
3 ‘ It is quite simply not fair either to other police officers or to the public they serve to put them at risk by failing to deal with poor performance . ’
4 But chimpanzees do not breed well in captivity , partly because of a long pregnancy and childhood , and trapping them in the wild is expensive and wasteful enough to put them at risk of extinction .
5 You 're gon na be on the road , the number of miles you do is obviously going to put you at risk , more than somebody who does a third of your miles .
6 She tried to put him at ease : " Why do n't you take your coat off ? " she said .
7 We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’
8 Fred Bradley stayed very much in the background and his soft , kind eyes helped to put her at ease .
9 It would be dangerous pinning Ebert down and he did n't want to put her at risk .
10 You 've got to put it at chest height
11 ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’
12 What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession .
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