Example sentences of "put it [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But why should speakers or writers actually plan to say something in one way and then put it in other words in order to ensure the intended interpretation ?
2 Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared .
3 Second , to obtain recognition , as French Foreign Minister Schuman put it in tripartite talks with the Americans and the British in September , 1949 , that the French were the hard core of resistance to communist attempts to take over , initially , Indo-China and ultimately all of Southeast Asia and that as France was fighting the battle of all the democratic powers she would need help .
4 As he put it in subsequent letters to Eisenhower , since an American nuclear attack would automatically place France in grave danger of a retaliatory Russian attack , France had an absolute right to participate in any decision about such an attack .
5 As one observer put it after goalless draws with Castellon and Mallorca : ‘ Under Beenhakker , the little teams were slaughtered . ’
6 All sorts of people since then have speculated on how the Arts Lab started , and various different books and publications about Bowie 's career have put it in all sorts of different context , but that is how it happened .
7 ( Puts it with large shells of the same type , then replaces it with the tiny ones . )
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