Example sentences of "putting [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , all this business putting me on the carpet … implying that I might leave you short . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket . |
| 5 | Thanks for putting me in the picture , Patrick . ’ |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was again very close with only one goal scored by Cyril Bailey of Mullingar putting them into the Final . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now she has refined those skills with the help of judo and is putting them at the service of her country . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 17 | Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons . |
| 18 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 20 | ‘ We have the whole story here in these papers , ’ said Mr Brownlow , putting them on the table . |
| 21 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 22 | Well , he said , I 'm putting them on the train and they 'll be in Valley on the seven o'clock train for you On Friday night this was . |
| 23 | After putting them on the rail the sellers sent the buyers an invoice stating ‘ At sole risk of purchaser after putting fish on rail here . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs Foster bobbed about collecting the items and putting them on the counter . |
| 25 | After emancipation the state could transform recruitment by enlisting more people each year but putting them on the reserve list much sooner . |
| 26 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 27 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 28 | He 's putting them on the side , like , I 'm asleep in bed , he goes this one 's for you . |
| 29 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 30 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |