Example sentences of "they put [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 2 | Naturally the two officers protest that their girls are different , but Alfonso persuades them to put it to the test . |
| 3 | He thought , when this Lieutenant Colonel came back to him and said , oh my God the police budget 's in problems , we 've got em here , that they put something onto the council agenda . |
| 4 | I mean they put something round the mother 's tummy and they can see the heart beat beating , whereas we , if we wanted to know if the baby was alright and er it was n't getting distressed you 'd just put a , a cloth on the mummy 's tum and put your ear down to it and hear it that way . |
| 5 | During the autumn and winter of that dramatic year they put themselves at the forefront of agitation for more effective air raid precautions , and used their influence in the war factories to defend workers ’ living standards while criticizing the inefficiency of management . |
| 6 | This does not mean that they put themselves into the hands of an absolute authority . |
| 7 | ‘ I started to come round when they put me on the slab . |
| 8 | Started at that 's right , yes and er I did and er they put me in the machine shop filing keyhole and Those times they had to be all cast over the rim locks and all that , now they 've made for us and all that . |
| 9 | And they put me in the banqueting room , erm but we could n't , d' ya know . |
| 10 | ‘ They put me in the bin because I suddenly had a talking jag , ’ Edward said . |
| 11 | They put me in the prison hospital . |
| 12 | and they 've I gave them to them and they put them on the hedges |
| 13 | But especially when they put them at the end of a sentence where they should be putting a full stop . |
| 14 | I was only a lad , I was er a messenger boy on the loading deck and I used to have to go down to at Beskett and fetch parts for the planes and er plates , aluminium plates , to be normalized which was a treatment when they put them into the vats and I had to fetch the films as well , from the house that used to be a warehouse for films over in er in by the beacon , great bar ! |
| 15 | And if they died , we us I helping my moni my Mother many at time , to wash them down , before they put them in the coffins . |
| 16 | ‘ Then they put them in the sun to dry out , and when the meat curls away from the shell it 's put into sacks . |
| 17 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 18 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 19 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 20 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 21 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 22 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 23 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 24 | They wheel you over and they put you in the bath and they start stripping off your bandages which is absolute agony . |
| 25 | That was recommended to the employers , the employers said yes , that 's the action they would take , they put it to the trustees , the trustees agreed it and that was it . |
| 26 | They could n't come to a decision so they put it to the vote when — as the book put it — a pair of bearded anarchists , one with flame red hair , appeared out of nowhere and took their decision for them , smashing down the gates with sledgehammers . |
| 27 | they put it on the drive for |
| 28 | Well at the time they put it on the market we , we all three thought that it would be a good idea if , if both families sold up and moved into something smaller and perhaps moved near to each other |
| 29 | but she had drapes and that to buy herself and , and they put it on the frame and she ca n't get into her drawers on bed , so they 're no good |
| 30 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |