Example sentences of "put [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put them on the counter and asked , ‘ Tea or coffee ? ’ |
| 2 | So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to . |
| 3 | ‘ he put them on the shelf and said , ‘ Let's watch over them and see how long it takes to sell them ’ . |
| 4 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 5 | She put them into the basket and Chola stretched across the fire to pass her a puri . |
| 6 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 7 | She was carrying a fresh tray of ice ; the cubes popped when she put them in the drinks . |
| 8 | He put them in the warm water . |
| 9 | All your twenties were on her little list and when Mr Nassim put them in the bank yesterday he got a nasty shock . |
| 10 | They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time . |
| 11 | and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money |
| 12 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 13 | ‘ He put me on the spot and eventually pulled out of the deal as much as I did . |
| 14 | The farmer put me on the table , with some small pieces of bread and meat in front of me . |
| 15 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 16 | And the next day — well nearly — the Service put me on the list as an Administration Trainee . |
| 17 | Not just because of Joachim 's kindness but that chance encounter put me on the road to solving Selkirk 's riddles and the horrible murders they caused . ) |
| 18 | He put me on the committee and now they 've persuaded me to open the thing . ’ |
| 19 | If I remember correctly , I could get to either and someone put me on the system . |
| 20 | While she made tea with her usual haphazard efficiency , she put me into the picture . |
| 21 | This might have been all very well for my ego but it put me in the position of a complete novice , with my boss listening critically from the platform to everything I said on his behalf . |
| 22 | ‘ And the Trunchbull put you in The Chokey for a whole day ? ’ |
| 23 | One day his inquisitors would take Master Learmouth and put him to the question . |
| 24 | These two seemed friendly enough , but their questions about Sweetheart put him on the defensive . |
| 25 | Life magazine put him on the cover and that single photograph of Manson , with his evil , hypnotic stare , became for the hysterical mass media , the face of a violent , drug-crazed substrata of society : the monster hidden in the heart of every hippie and longhaired supporter of a culture which seemed certain to encompass an increasing section of youth and bandwagonners . |
| 26 | That application form put him on the ladder , not only to the top of the Japanese profession , but to international recognition — on 1 January this year he took over the chairmanship of the International Accounting Standards Committee . |
| 27 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 28 | What Hornung had done was to take his brother-in-law 's famous detective , Sherlock Holmes , and put him on the wrong side of the law ; a friendly dedication acknowledged the debt . |
| 29 | It was his own early instincts as a risk taker which first put him on the path that was ultimately to lead to him becoming chairman and chief executive of Hilton International . |
| 30 | She put him on the chest of drawers and fetched a nut out of his special box . |