Example sentences of "putting [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Guinness flows , putting everyone in a confessional mood .
2 No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out .
3 ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’
4 I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred .
5 It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket .
6 She said , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’
7 As she walked past his crumpled body she had said again , ‘ Nobody 's putting me in no garbage can . ’
8 Up at the old house , Donald kicked the kettle in a spasm of impatience and said angrily to Jean , ‘ Why are you putting me in a vice ?
9 A group of whirligig beetles span round and round on the surface of the water putting me in a daze .
10 I found myself hating them , hating myself for hating them , hating myself for wanting to say so , hating them for putting me in a position of wanting to say so .
11 Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’
12 He totted up the number of points according to guidelines worked out by Denplan with categories from A to E. In my case , the extent of dental work meant I scored 158 points , putting me in the most expensive category , E.
13 ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio .
14 They must survive the heat and other stresses involved in putting them into a warhead that can disperse them in a fine mist over enemy positions .
15 This is not , for once , the Beowulf -poet , who took a strong line on ylfe or elves , putting them into a list with ‘ ettens ’ and indeed with ‘ orcs ’ — a very stern view of all non-human and un-Christian species .
16 A default colour palette will be displayed on the screen from which you select colours for your woolbox , rather like going into a shop , choosing cones of different colour yarns and putting them into a bag to take home !
17 It entails beating up some chicken eggs , putting them into a syringe and squirting the uncooked scramble down the bird 's throat .
18 ‘ Rule 2 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods , for the purpose of putting them into a deliverable state , the property does not pass until the thing is done , and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’
19 misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it
20 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 .
21 The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models .
22 The tentacles of the Corallimorphia are always in multiples of six , putting them into the taxonomic subclass Hexacorallia which also contains sea anemones , hard corals and zoanthids .
23 This was again very close with only one goal scored by Cyril Bailey of Mullingar putting them into the Final .
24 Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets .
25 Sullivan says IBM is ‘ taking the benefit of the productivity ’ by changing the jobs people do , and putting them into the revenue-earning areas of the company .
26 The market had expected Thames , Severn Trent and North West to be listed , putting them at an immediate investment advantage to the rest of the sector .
27 Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country .
28 are putting in they have high attendance rates because they 're including explained absences you know , as justified you know , and putting them with the actual attendance
29 I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’
30 He got rid of the sheets by putting them on a chair near the passage-way to the bedroom .
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